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How, Not If

I play games like I once used to read novels. There exists a pile and as I finish each game (taking a number of weeks...

posted on: Mar 12, 2010 | author: Mike Jones

“You Can Write a Movie” by Pamela Wallace Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2000. 118 pages. ISBN...

posted on: Mar 11, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

I want to say a word on trusting the reader. An inevitable sign of growth in a new writer – and we all go...

posted on: Mar 8, 2010 | author: Mystery Man

:: How to logline a script with multiple plots. :: Persistence in your scene-writing: imagining your story in its own...

posted on: Mar 7, 2010 | author: Solmaaz

The point of every script is to be made into a film – obviously. Yet why do so some great stories never make it...

posted on: Mar 4, 2010 | author: Christopher Riley

“Writing Drama: A Comprehensive Guide for Playwrights and Scriptwriters” by Yves Lavandier. Translated from the...

posted on: Mar 4, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

:: Writer Laeta Kalogridis of Shutter Island’s advice: “Live within your means.” :: An endless...

posted on: Feb 28, 2010 | author: Solmaaz

If Shakespeare were writing screenplays now, he’d be laughed out of Hollywood. Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet were...

posted on: Feb 27, 2010 | author: Devin Watson