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Kurtzman and Orci on Trek and writing together

May 27, 2009 Adaptation, Film Industry, Story and Plot, Writing Process

Story lessons from Star Trek, from the mouths and minds of the writers.

Leftover questions

May 21, 2009 Follow Up, QandA, Video

Some readers had questions they didn’t get to ask on the call-in show last night, so I answered them this morning.

Take away the questions

May 20, 2009 Adaptation, Projects, Story and Plot

You shouldn’t just answer questions. Get rid of them before they’re asked.

Same script, different day

May 19, 2009 Psych 101, QandA, Writing Process

Do you ever get sick of working with the same script that you are loathe to even look at it anymore? Yes.

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