:: Create A Compelling Protagonist
:: Is Your Hero Wrong?
:: Are We Hardwired to Interpret the World Through Stories
:: Inception Breakdown
:: How To Write A Treatment
:: Some Winning Synopsis’s
:: ‘The Storytelling Animal,’ by Jonathan Gottschall

Script Perfection

:: 100 Exquisite Adjectives
:: Screenwriting Tip #1069 – Readability
:: Scriptcat’s Top Ten Questions For Aspiring Screenwriters

Pitching & Selling

:: Does Hollywood not Care about Scripts that are Bad and Unoriginal?
:: The Difficult Challenge of Media Alignment

Best of the Rest

:: The Dark Knight Custom-Made Batcave Theatre
:: Interview: ‘Klown’ Writers/Stars Frank Hvam & Casper Christensen
:: 10 Films to look out for at the Toronto Film
:: 8 Tips For Becoming a Good Warm-Up Guy
:: How They Write A Script: Wendell Mayes
:: Your Favorite Films from your Favorite Film Makers
:: More Your Favourite Filmmakers’ Favourite Films
:: Awesome People Reading
:: My Favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca
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With thanks to Jamie Campbell and Brooke Trezise.

Enjoy!

Karel

Jamie Campbell

Jamie Campbell is an author, screenwriter, and television addict.

Jamie is proud to be an Editor for The Story Department.

Her latest series Project Integrate is out now.

jamiecampbell.com.au

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With thanks to Sol.

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Karel

:: Interview with A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Eric Heisserer.

:: Put lumps in those throats! Getting your viewers emotionally involved.

:: Protocol: how to dump your agent.

:: Missing: villain. Writing a story without an antagonist.

:: Fight Club’s Jim Uhls on writer’s block.

:: A sensitive formula: blending physical and emotional journey.

:: Money matters. Selling a treatment.

:: Expository scenes, when too much is too much.

:: Writing fight scenes, some things to know.

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With thanks to Sol.

Enjoy!

Karel

Here’s my weekly selection from the blogosphere. Feel free to recommend anything or give your feedback in the Questions and Comments below.

And don’t forget you can subscribe to our posts so you don’t miss any of this, ever.

• Just in: Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland on 31yr old warrant.
• Something for those who don’t hold the MacGuffin in high esteem.
  
• The difference between treatment and outline? Scott Meyers explains
  
• The line between negotiation and exploitation? Alex Epstein on rights.
  
• Scarlett: ‘What’s my motivation here?’ Woody: ‘Your salary’.
• Great writing: emotion exploding out of a few simple lines.
  
• Soderbergh’s Informant: based on a true story, Kottke found out.
• Aronofsky plans movie based on Securitas heist. I want to see it.
  
• Save money and a trip to the cinema. Cody’s ‘Body’ on MyPDFscripts.
  
• I once met with Greenaway. Cool guy, mean artist. Not a filmmaker.
• Soderbergh was in Sydney last week. What was he doing here?
  
• Thompson’s much quoted piece on the Toronto ’09 “blood bath”.
• Did the Toronto Film Fest wrap-up worry you? Here’s more.

COMING SOON to the Story Department:

• Structural breakdown of THE UNTOUCHABLES
• Paul Gulino: Screenwriting, the Deadline Approach.
• The Fastest Pass: Improve your script in less than an hour.

Enjoy!

Karel

Karel FG Segers

Karel Segers wrote his first produced screenplay at age 17. Today he is a story analyst with experience in acquisition, development and production. He has trained students worldwide, and worked with half a dozen Academy Award nominees. Karel speaks more European languages than he has fingers on his left hand, which he is still trying to find a use for in his hometown of Sydney, Australia. The languages, not the fingers.

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