Archive for the 'Recycled' Category

• e  6 Split screens

  Split screens aren’t always spelled out in scripts, but you can get the idea across.

• e  6 Where to begin a script

  You don’t have to know everything about your story and characters before you begin. Discovery is the best part of the writing process.

• e  Comments Off Summer Reruns

  Over the next two weeks, you’ll notice a bit of deja vu at this site: old articles suddenly popping up on the front page, with new dates and old comments. It’s not a technical glitch. I’m putting the site into reruns while I’m out of the country and off the grid.

  I’m going to Africa — [...]

• e  20 What is a script doctor?

  There’s no shortcut around becoming a “screenwriter” to becoming a “script doctor.”

• e  17 Making the geek movie

  There is definitely room in the film universe for a uber-geek movie, be it a thriller, a drama, a comedy or whatever.

• e  20 Rejection

  Eventually, you learn that you can’t depend on strangers for validation.

• e  1 Theory #1

  Predictability in structure does not necessarily doom the story to boredom or sameness.

• e  2 Screenwriting wastes a lot of paper

  Suggestions for saving paper, your money and the environment.

• e  4 Recycled articles

  One of the suggestions from the survey was to highlight previous articles from the archives. I agreed, because (a) the readership has grown quite a bit recently, and (b) the archives are kind of daunting right now.

  So, every once in a while, I’ll be pulling old articles up to the front — generally entries [...]

• e  48 Does bad work spoil mine?

  Rejoice and learn from the suckiness. Their low standards make your great script all the more unusual.

• e  5 Craft service

  The differences between craft services and catering and who to go to when one isn’t up to par.