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Susan Kouguell speaks with Can You Ever
Forgive Me? editor Anne McCabe about her collaboration with director Marielle
Heller. Read More...
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Tom Stempel analyzes A Simple Favor; The Old Man and the
Gun; Juliet, Naked; The Book Shop; Operation Finale; Colette; All About Nina;
The Sisters Brothers; and the book, When Women Wrote Hollywood. Read More...
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Script's Editor shares advice on gifts for
writers for the holidays or anytime! Read More...
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with
Writer/Director Jeremy Unger about how he got his new thriller, Ride, produced. He
originally wrote and directed a short film as a proof of concept, which
helped him gain traction with the feature version, which he recently completed. Read More...
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Let Screenwriter’s University show you,
step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment! We’ve made the
anxiety-producing process of treatment writing simple with our ground-breaking
approach to the form. By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong
treatment and a solid log line for your screenplay that has been vetted by an
industry professional.
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Our webinars include both access to the live
webinar where you may interact with the presenter and the recorded, on-demand
edition for your video library. You do not have to attend the live event to
get a recording of the presentation.
See full list of upcoming
live online webinars here.
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At the recent Producers Guild of America’s
Produced By: New York conference, producing and collaboration panels
emphasized the continued need for diversity. Read More...
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Steven Vitolo speaks about his TV writing
career, what it actually means to be a Script Coordinator vs. a Script
supervisor vs. a Writer’s Assistant, how he, as a white writer, came to write
for the show Black-ish,
and how Scriptation was born. Read More...
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A writer has a lot to be thankful for as we
move into the holiday season. Terri Coduri Viani reflects on things that make
the writing life better.
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Ashley Scott Meyers with Writer/Director Ari
Gold about directing theater, which lead him to short films, and eventually
feature films, and his new indy drama, The
Song of Sway Lake. Read More...
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Jeanne Veillette
Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book, Slavery
by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25
Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic
Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.
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Tips to Elevate the
Drama!
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In this week's screenwriting tip,
screenwriter William Martell explains how sometimes it's more dramatic to
have a character do absolutely nothing in a scene. Inaction can speak
volumes.
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By William Martell
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I'm an action movie guy—I not only like
action movies and write action movies, I preach the use of actions to tell
your story: "If you don't show it the audience can't know it."
Action *is* character. Having a character slap another character is more
dramatic than having them say, "I hate you." You want your
characters to show us what they're feeling—that way the actors can actually
do some acting.
So this article may shock some of you—sometimes it's more dramatic to have a
character do absolutely nothing. Just stand there—without any trace of
emotions at all. Some of you may be shocked that I'm advocating something
that sounds suspiciously like subtlety, but that's exactly what I'm doing.
But even when you're being subtle, remember that film is communication—which
means we STILL have to get that emotional information to the audience—we're
just not going to be using our character to do that. We're going to use the
situation which surrounds our character. The *character's reactions* may be
subtle, but the *situation the character is in* will have to give the
audience all of the necessary information (and probably won't be
subtle). Read More...
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Jeanne Veillette
Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning
book, Slavery by Another
Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board
Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE
Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.
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Through the years, we’ve had many amazing
articles on ScriptMag.com.
This week, we share some of our favorites from our archives to help you
create a great idea and plan your next screenplay. Learn about structure,
conflict and facing the blank page. 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 for
Winning Screenwriting Contests to help you succeed in the next
contest you enter!
Now get reading and get writing! Read More...
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I know writers love to know the “rules” and
“formulas” and “principles” of writing, but truthfully, there are no great
truths about writing. A great writer knows the pitfalls and takes a concept
and creatively considers the most compelling way to tell that story—structure
be damned. Read More...
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter
and producer Erik Bork (Band
of Brothers) about his new screenwriting book: The Idea: The Seven Elements of a
Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction. We dig into a number
of the lessons that he teaches in the book, including the crucial aspect that
basic idea plays in the ultimate success of the project. Read More...
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The next chapter of our Script Secrets
assignments, CONFLICT! Every scene in your script should have conflict...
that way we can explore character. Screenwriting is dramatic writing. It's
about people with really big problems which will be solved through
emotionally charged action or dialogue scenes. Script contributor William
Martell is here to help you develop stronger conflicts in your work. Read More...
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Jerry Flattum explores the varying plot
types, story types, themes and genres to help you write a marketable
screenplay. Read More...
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Let Screenwriter’s University show you,
step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment! We’ve made the
anxiety-producing process of treatment writing simple with our
ground-breaking approach to the form. By the end of this workshop, you will
have a strong treatment and a solid log line for your screenplay that has
been vetted by an industry professional. Enroll Now...
See full list of self-paced
online courses here.
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Our webinars include both access to the live
webinar where you may interact with the presenter and the recorded, on-demand
edition for your video library. You do not have to attend the live event to
get a recording of the presentation.
See full list of upcoming
live online webinars here.
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Relax and stop worrying. And you’ll get
through that block in no time. If you are concerned about writer’s block,
your concern might actually create a block or fortify the one you already
have. So what can you do?
Read More...
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Emmy-winning screenwriter ERIK BORK (BAND OF
BROTHERS) says the first ten pages of a script must make the reader
understand and care about the main character. Read More...
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Jeanne Veillette
Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning
book, Slavery by Another
Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board
Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE
Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.
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F+W, 10151
Carver Road, Suite 300, Blue Ash, OH, 45242 USA
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