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WEEK IN REVIEW
December 2014
Theory of Everything
Letter from the Editor
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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Online Editor
ScriptMag.com

Our ScriptMag.com family of contributors bring you new content to help your career, including screenwriter interviews, movie reviews, TV writers' room advice and more! Check out our full list of contributors and follow them on Twitter too.

There are as many ways to break into the industry as there are writers. One way is to enter screenwriting contests. Get our FREE Download Tips to Improve Your Odds of Winning a Screenplay Contest to help you succeed in the next contest you enter!

Above all, we at Script Magazine want to wish you all the happiest of holiday seasons and great success in the coming year, both personally and in your writing.

Now get reading and get writing!

Jeanne Bowerman
ScriptMag Editor

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Brandon Barker
Brandon Barker on Writing, Career & the Sale of ‘Nottingham & Hood’ to Disney
The same, but different. That’s what new writers are told to strive for when it comes to commercial concepts to raise their chances of a sale. It worked for screenwriter Brandon Barker.
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Screenwriter's Guidepost: The Art of Taking Notes
Here are 3 tips on taking notes that will hopefully save you much suffering, make your current script better, and, maybe, even elevate your storytelling for all projects going forward...
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Selling Your Screenplay Podcast: An Interview With Screenwriter and Teacher Corey Mandell About How To Break In
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Corey Mandell. Corey has been writing and teaching screenwriting for years and has some significant insight into how to break into the business.
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Get FREE Download with 16 Tips for Beating Writer's Block from Writing Coach Jenna Avery
What causes writer's block? We show you 5 causes of writer's block and offer Jenna Avery's 16 tips for beating it! Get those words on the page with our free download!
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ScriptXpert Script Search Top Writers Announced!
The ScriptXpert team is pleased to announce the considerations of the first round of the Script Search service featuring The Asylum. Please join us as we congratulate the top 5 writers in each category and wish them luck!
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Thanks to the Digital Revolution, virtually anyone with an iPhone and some luck can shoot a viral video these days, but very few people have a clue as to how to make a documentary feature that can be sold and shown to an audience. If you have you ever wondered how to do more than just make a viral video, and what is involved in making a good documentary, this course is for you.
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UPCOMING SCREENWRITING EVENTS for December!

Screenwriters University:
Classes are through an online platform that you can access anytime. There are weekly assignments to keep up with, but for the most part, you can follow at your own pace.
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Storytelling Strategies: Tension, Release and 'Interstellar'
Paul Joseph Gulino examines 'Interstellar' to show how too much story and too little setup can leave the audience on the outside looking in.
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Riding on Faith in True-Life Scripts
Dan Goforth talks about his latest assignment, the true-life story of inspirational rodeo rider Amberley Snyder.
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Learn How to Double Your Odds of Success with our FREE Download: Sript to Novel Writing Tips!
Why only get part of the benefit of your script? Don't just stop there, adapt it to a novel for even more reach with these script to novel writing tips!
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Writers' Room 101: If You Stay Ready
TV writer Eric Haywood talks about the importance of having your scripts ready to go at any given moment.
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Writers on the Verge: Your Screenwriting Agent or Manager is NOT Your Friend
Screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup explains the screenwriting agent relationship - when to talk and when to keep it zipped.
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The Perfect Last-Minute Gift for Your Favorite Screenwriters!
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Ira Sachs
A Screenplay to Remember: Ira Sachs and Maurico Zachiaria's 'Love is Strange'
Bob Verini sits down with director Ira Sachs to discuss the sensitive screenplay he wrote with Mauricio Zacharias that touches on questions that have always been important to older Americans.
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Behind the Lines with DR: Relationships, Reputations and Sam I'm the Man
You get attached to a new project as the writer. But what happens when the reputation of your team member makes the execs pause? Doug Richardson concludes the tale in Part 2.
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Writing the Sci-fi fantasy Film
Science Fiction/Fantasy films push the boundaries of the imagination to another realm where anything in this world—other worlds, or even the entire universe—can exist. The sky is, in fact, not even close to the limit! Writing the science fiction/fantasy screenplay requires creating a world and its population in which the reader will curiously and excitedly take the leap of faith with the writer, and not only believe and understand what is actually occurring, but care about it.
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Learn How to Create Dynamic Characters Actors Want to Play With Our FREE Webinar!
To increase your odds of getting produced, you need to attract top talent who will put an audience in the seats. Creating characters that actors want to play is a must. In our FREE Creating Dynamic Characters Webinar, you’ll learn how to create and develop characters from screenwriter and Editor of Script Magazine, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman.
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The filmmaking industry has a certain expectation of not only how a script for a movie or TV show is written but also of how to market your script and yourself. In our FREE downloads, you’ll receive expert advice on how to create a logline, how to structure an outline, TV writing, and tips on how to move your plot forward using your character’s inner journey, and more!

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