Archive for the 'So-Called Experts' Category
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Rethinking motivation
Try replacing the question of what the character wants/needs with, “Why is the character doing what he’s doing?”
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Short answer sprint
Nine second answers to nine burning questions. Ready…go!
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What does he want?
Often, the best answer is the simplest: something physical and achievable.
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Script Cops
Video link.
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The Hollywood Standard
All you need to know about formatting a screenplay, right here (for sale anyway). Second opinions included.
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Is Scriptblaster worth trying?
Your money would be better spent elsewhere. Such as Vegas.
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Professional Writing and the Rise of the Amateur
A lecture to Trinity University on authorship and authority in the internet age.
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Write-up of my recent WGA Foundation Q&A
Corrections to notes on my Q&A at the WGA.
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Stressing over structure
Stop thinking about structure as something you impose upon your story. It’s an inherent part of it, like the setup to a joke.
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Backing up is hard to do
It’s the law of delayed consequences: people tend to put off work that doesn’t have immediate gratification.
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The Get A Mentor program
Is your mentor program a tad shady?
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Hiring a “script doctor”
If you really have limitations in a given area — dialogue, plotting, whatever — you need a writing partner, not a self-styled guru.
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Writers Boot Camp
Workshops often bill themselves as helping writers avoid the painful mistakes, but sometimes what you really need are the painful mistakes.
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Getting help as a deaf screenwriter
If you were hired to write a magazine article in French, you wouldn’t think twice about having a native speaker look over your work. That’s what you need.
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Robert Mckee
Internalize what makes sense to you and chuck the rest. Anyone who tries to convince you that theirs is the One True Way is deluding themselves and you.
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Screenwriting contests
A couple can be a boon to a young writer, others are in it for the cash.
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Script promotion websites
A waste of time and money?
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Paying for notes?
If you’re looking to strangers for notes, protect yourself and check them out first.
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Writing a biography
Link to a template to write your baby-writer biography.
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