screenwriting
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Why Protagonists Must Have Some Virtues
In my past essays I have explained how Australian feature film stories could be improved by paying attention to originality,…
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Pitch script. Do deal. Bank cheque.
You’ve written and rewritten, gotten notes, rewritten again, crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s and now what? What happens…
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[Video]: Is “The Words” an insane attempt at juggling 3 distinct stories?
Writer/director Brian Klugman and Bradley Cooper discuss their new film The Words, the process of weaving together three distinct stories…
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[Video]: Game of Thrones’ David Benioff on the Writing Process
Screenwriter David Benioff (City of Thieves, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Game of Thrones) discusses how lean, streamlined writing is an important…
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Write What You Know… And Other Stupid Advice For Screenwriters
Writing is done in isolation. It drives you batty sometimes. Like anything that bleeds, you leave a writer alone for…
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[Video]: Peter Hedges about “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”
Did you know Google talks to Artists? Well, here's the most in-depth recent interview I could find with Peter Hedges,…