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Draft Development

• How important are format and style?
• How thick is your skin?
• How to Write a Readable Script
• Introducing Names
• Its time to stop looking stupid
• Mental Spackle
• Perfect Formatting
• Script Check: DAY / NIGHT
• Script Development - Step by Step
• Strip the Script
• Technology and Screenwriting 2.0
• The (Necessary) Evil of Dialogue
• Translating Visions
• Trust the Reader
• What You're Up Against
• Who get their first films/scripts made?
• Your fastest draft ever

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Guest Contributions

• A Grant Winner's Praise and Gripes
• Agents: Some Fine Print
• Alien: Sex in deep space
• Animation Imagination
• Blake Snyder - A Giant Shadow
• Bringing Up Baby
• Can't get ME out of my mind.
• Chick Flick
• Confessions of a Scriptwriter (1)
• Confessions of a Scriptwriter (2)
• Confessions of a Scriptwriter (3)
• Cut the Second Draft Paste
• Farewell, Blake
• Formatting Scripts To Sell
• Guilty Pleasures
• Hollywood's Best Kept Secret
• How to Write a Readable Script
• How, Not If
• If you can dream it …
• Introducing Minor Characters
• Is screenwriting for me? (1)
• Is screenwriting for me? (2)
• Kenny - Plumbing the depths
• Leave the Right Things Out
• Mental Spackle
• NCS '09: What did I miss?
• Never, ever leave your vehicle.
• Optimizing Your Pitch
• OZ Filmers: "If they only loved us."
• Screenwriting Expo - Day 1
• Screenwriting Expo: Day 2 & 3
• Screenwriting for Editing
• Script Development - Step by Step
• Strip the Script
• The Deadline Approach
• The Golden Boy of the Black List
• The Movie Party: Raindance Review
• The Natural Three Acts
• The Other Story Dept.
• The Psychology of Scriptwriting (1)
• The Psychology of Scriptwriting (2)
• The Psychology of Scriptwriting (3)
• The Psychology of Scriptwriting (4)
• The Story Revolution
• The world through animation goggles
• Translating Visions
• Understanding the Agent
• Writing a doco treatment that sells
• Writing for Daily Drama (1)
• Writing for Daily Drama (2)

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News

• Chris Weekes tops The Black List
• Creative Master Ron Cobb
• Diagnosis: Obsession
• Elephant in the Room
• First, Break All the Rules
• iPhone on ... and "Fade In"
• iPhone Reloaded
• Jaws Structure scores 1,000+ views
• Just Ad Words
• Karel at WordCamp Australia
• Killing My Darlings
• Mid-Point: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• NOT Story
• OZ Film Vs. OZ Audience
• PUPPY: First Ozzy Indie on BluRay
• Seizing the Sword
• Snapshot (that'll never be)
• Stop digging: Holy Grail found!
• Stop Reading Scripts
• Structuring the Facts
• The best eggs come after Easter
• The Good Read
• The Main Man (m/f)
• The Mobile Dept.
• The Secret
• The Story Department in Top 50
• What just happened??
• Wonderful 2010!
• Writing in Sin

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Old Blogger Posts

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Pitching and Selling

• Understanding the Agent
• Writings of a Reader

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Screenwriting Life

• To McKee or not to McKee

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Short Film

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Story and Structure Articles

• A Story within a (Toy) Story
• Arcs and Endings (1)
• Arcs and Endings (2)
• Arcs and Endings (3)
• Blade Runner: The 8 Mins First Act
• Checklist: Active Protagonist
• Dances with Smurfs
• Events vs. Actions
• Flashbacks are Your Friend.
• Four flaws that kill your Hero.
• Hollywood's Best Kept Secret
• How, Not If
• Inciting Incident: Definitions
• Inciting Incident: Event, not Action.
• Inciting Incident: Planting the Bomb
• Inventor or Innovator?
• Learn from other people's mistakes
• Logline: Definitions
• Logline: Examples
• Logline: Introduction
• Mystery Man vs. Sherlock Holmes: 1-0
• On Adaptations
• Plot => Character (Rituals => Tribe)
• Plot Point: Brainstorming Plot Points
• Plot Point: Introduction
• Point of View: Introduction
• POV as Controller of Tone
• POV: McKee's View
• POV: Omniscient Point of View
• POV: Ratatouille's Deleted Scene
• POV: When to Shift?
• Shifting POV
• Structural Overviews: Why?
• The Deadline Approach
• The Incident versus The Call
• The Inciting Incident
• The Natural Three Acts
• The Power of Next
• The Reverse Arc
• The Untouchables - Hiring the Mentor
• The Untouchables - The Mid Point(s)
• Three or Four?
• What level are we on?
• When the script and story gurus speak
• Who is John Galt?

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Structural Analyses (Movie Breakdowns)

• Structure: Avatar
• Structure: Ghost World
• Structure: Iron Man
• Structure: Jaws
• Structure: Juno
• Structure: Michael Clayton
• Structure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Structure: Shaun of the Dead
• Structure: Shawshank Redemption
• Structure: Terminator 2
• Structure: The Incredibles
• Structure: The Untouchables
• Structure: Thelma & Louise
• Structure: Up

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Stuff

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