Archive for the 'Recycled' Category
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Split screens
Split screens aren’t always spelled out in scripts, but you can get the idea across.
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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.
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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 — [...]
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What is a script doctor?
There’s no shortcut around becoming a “screenwriter” to becoming a “script doctor.”
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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.
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Rejection
Eventually, you learn that you can’t depend on strangers for validation.
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Theory #1
Predictability in structure does not necessarily doom the story to boredom or sameness.
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Screenwriting wastes a lot of paper
Suggestions for saving paper, your money and the environment.
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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 [...]
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Does bad work spoil mine?
Rejoice and learn from the suckiness. Their low standards make your great script all the more unusual.
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Craft service
The differences between craft services and catering and who to go to when one isn’t up to par.

