I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
March 18, 2013
Quote of the Day: Nora Ephron
March 15, 2013
Video: 5 Great Screenwriters Talk Craft
Christopher Boone of NoFilmSchool.com has put together five videos of award-winning screenwriters talking about their writing process. Boone writes:
Today I present to you five award-winning screenwriters discussing their approach to the craft of screenwriting. You may want to get a snack or even a small meal because some of these videos are long, but all of them offer unique insights into how each of these writers (or writing teams) approach a story, and then break the story down into screenplay format. Hopefully, these videos will educate and inspire you as you work on your own screenwriting craft.
March 15, 2013
Quote of the Day: Steven Spielberg
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them special effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story.
March 14, 2013
Quote of the Day: Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
March 13, 2013
John Steinbeck’s Six Writing Tips
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (a site I highly suggest all writers peruse) has shared six writing tips that John Steinbeck originally shared in an interview with The Paris Review in 1975:
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
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March 13, 2013
Quote of the Day: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
March 12, 2013
Quote of the Day: Aaron Sorkin
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent and I’m not your mommy, I’m a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?” and I really, really don’t. I’ll go peaceable-like.
March 8, 2013
Script: Surrogates
Surrogates was written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris based on the graphic novel, “The Surrogates” by Robert Venditti.
March 8, 2013
Quote of the Day: Kurt Vonnegut
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
