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POSTED IN Best of the Web, Featured ON Mar 14, 2010
Best o/t Web 14 Mar 10
:: Black on action (via Scott Myers). :: Christopher Nolan on what to expect from Batman 3 :: How to logline a dual plot story? John August helps. ::...
POSTED IN Featured, Guest Contributions, Story & Structure ON Mar 12, 2010
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 and occasionally months each) I...
POSTED IN Book Reviews, Featured ON Mar 11, 2010
You Can Write a Movie
“You Can Write a Movie” by Pamela Wallace Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2000. 118 pages. ISBN 0-89879-974-0 Amazon Price: US...
POSTED IN Featured, Script Check, Script Perfection ON Mar 9, 2010
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are introduced. And it works so well. By the...
POSTED IN Featured, MM on Monday, Script Perfection ON Mar 8, 2010
Trust the Reader
I want to say a word on trusting the reader. An inevitable sign of growth in a new writer – and we all go through this arc – is in the...
POSTED IN Featured, News ON Mar 8, 2010
What just happened??
I have seen The Hurt Locker and I enjoyed it. But I don’t get the hype. Is this a memorable movie? Is it memorable for the right...
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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...
Script Perfection
Introducing Names
When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are...
Pitching & Selling
Writings of a Reader
Ever wondered what goes on inside the minds of the fragrant few who get hired to read our screenplays? Those...
The Natural Three Acts
If Shakespeare were writing screenplays now, he’d be laughed out of Hollywood. Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet were...
Reviewed: Personality
“Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are” by Daniel Nettle. Oxford University Press, Oxford 298...
On Adaptations
Let me get on my Project Gutenberg soapbox. One of the most under-appreciated opportunities for aspiring...
Best o/t Web 21 Feb 10
:: Independent film, the new horizons. :: Why companies toss your spec script. :: Using dialect in your script, and...
Make Our Myths
posted on: Feb 19, 2010 | author: Karen Pearlman
What is the motivation for our films? How does the Australian film industry maintain its identity in this new age of filmmaking? What should a...
The Sequence Approach
posted on: Feb 19, 2010 | author: Jack Brislee
“Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach” by Paul Joseph Gulino. Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. New York, NY 2004. 230 pages....
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