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Bookstores
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Don’t Try to Sell Your Script
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Oct 02, 2026 |
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Little Bo-Peep
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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There Are Many Stories, But Only One Theme
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Beginnings
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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It Ain't Over Til It's Over
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Love Mail and Hate Mail
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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Neanderthal Films
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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Plane Geometry and Storytelling
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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The Average Rational Person
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Query Letters
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Smoking in Movies
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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More On Inflection
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Inflection Vs. Text
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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More on A.I.
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Art's Worst Enemy
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Guilt and Goals
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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The Large Doll Area
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Do You Really Like It?
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Avoid Stereotypes
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Audiences Are Not Stupid But Smart
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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How Movies Cure Cancer
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Sympathetic Bad Guys
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Inflection Versus Text
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Screenwriting and the Middle East
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Thomas Edison and Screenwriting
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Disclosure Day
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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We Had Faces
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Authority Means Zilch
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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The Purpose of Art and Movies
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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No Credits Is Your Best Credit
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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More on A.I.
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Narrative in Porn - Part II
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Narrative in Porn
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Little Things Mean A Lot - Part II
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May 30, 2026 |
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Little Things Mean A Lot - Part I
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May 29, 2026 |
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Perfectly Imperfect
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May 22, 2026 |
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Art Versus Commerce
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May 20, 2026 |
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More Michael
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May 16, 2026 |
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Michael
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May 14, 2026 |
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Narrative Bloat
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May 12, 2026 |
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Writer's Block
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May 11, 2026 |
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Betrayal
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May 03, 2026 |
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Self-Respect
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May 02, 2026 |
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Dialog--Keep it Short
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Best Line of Dialog Ever! The Idol Maker
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Sight, Sound, and Integration
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Stories Make The Rules and Not the Other Way Around
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Women and Men--Writers and Protagonists
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Dialog--Keep It Short
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Art Is An Ego Trip
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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A.I. - The Devil's Library
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The Oscars
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Finances for Writers
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Blue Moon and AI
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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After the Hunt: A Kvetchfest
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Still More on AI--The Magnificent Ambersons
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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More On (What Else?) A.I.
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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A.I. - The Good and Bad
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Cruelty
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Identity -- Schlindler and Malcolm
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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This And That
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Magic
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Train Dreams, Another Yawner
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Assimilation
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Magic and Rejection
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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The Biology of Narrative
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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The Importance of Art
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Karma and the F Word
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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How Does a Writer Know It's Time To Stop for the Day?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Hollywood Agents
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Writing Right or Wrong
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Conan, Brooks, Men Writing Women Characters
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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What're You Watching, Richie?
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Writing the Lived Experience
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Napalm in the Morning
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Technology and Story
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Every Writer's Best Friend: The Delete Key
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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LGBTQIA+ Female Protagonists
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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More on A.I.
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Invisible Artistry
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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More Regarding Novels Into Films
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Books Into Films
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Still More on Amateur Chic
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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More on Amateur Chic
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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What're You Watching Richie?
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Strategies as Distractions
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Screenwriting: Exceptions to the Rules
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Every Screenwriter's Conundrum: Should I Update My Old Scripts?
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Freedom of Expression and Creativity
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Mentorship--Write to the Writer
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Shakespeare the Plagiarist
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Endings
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Endings
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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More About Beginnings
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Don't Leave Out The Magic
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Free Speech
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Storyteller As God
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Assimilation
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The Power of Story
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Speech Cops
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Endings - St. Elsewhere
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Rest in Peace, Robert Redford
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Beginnings
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Genre Is Wildly Over-Rated
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Interactive Print
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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More on Long Story Short and The Empress
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Happy Endings and Other Hollywood Myths
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Long Story Short and The Empress
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Writing for Money
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Movies Are For Audiences
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Can You Really Teach Screenwriting?
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Appearances
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Business of Show
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Trends
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Untamed
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Only Thing You Know For Sure
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Writing Versus Film Tech
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Writers Kvetching, Karping, and Komplaining
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Ellipses and Assimilation
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Assimilation
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Squid Games Etc.
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Sex, Violence, and Cover Pages
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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What Are the Odds Of Greatness?
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Film Education in the Digital Era
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Feces As Entertainment
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Not Dialect But Dialogue
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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The Art of Trash
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Want Your Screenplay to Get Made? Write to the Writer
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Dreaded Dreadful Auteur Theory
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The Studio and Art Spiegelman--Disaster is My Muse
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Experimental Film
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Artificial Intelligence and Film
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Movie Trends
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May 30, 2025 |
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Falwell
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May 29, 2025 |
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My Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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May 27, 2025 |
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Original Movies V. Adaptations
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May 26, 2025 |
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Should I Hire An Editor?
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Professor's Favorite Movies
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May 15, 2025 |
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Why Isn't Streaming Great?
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May 09, 2025 |
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Conclave: My Film Review
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May 08, 2025 |
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Writers: Get Out of Your Own Way
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May 03, 2025 |
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Diversity and Casting
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May 01, 2025 |
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Where's Heinz?
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Genre-Schmenre
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Intellectual Property--Can I Write a Book or Make a Movie About You Without Your Permission?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Good Guys vs Bad Guys
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Intellectual Property - Copyright and Credits
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Movies and Snobbery
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Hollywood: An Egomaniac With An Inferiority Complex
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The End of Adversity
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Melody and Story
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The Brutalist
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Who Is The First Creator in Film - The Writer, Director, or Producer?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Oscars - Theatres Vs. Streaming
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Oscars 2025 Edition!
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Processing Criticism
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Dealing With Criticism
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Emelia Perez - What's Real and What's Reel?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Emelia Perez and the Oscars
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Two Principles That Guarantee Screenwriting Success
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Tis the Season - Let's Talk About the Oscars
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Song Lyrics
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Finding the Right Word
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Adapting Short Stories and Video Games
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Adaptations
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Language and Snobbery
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Dialogue... Less is More
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The Delete Key Is Every Writer's Best Friend
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Art, Adventure, Life, and Boredom
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Violence and Tushies
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Artificial Intelligence Paradise
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Why Women Are Better Writers Than Men
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Film and Artificial Intelligence
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Adaptation - Don't Do It!
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Overwriting Character Descriptions
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Novels and Screenplays and How to Turn One Into the Other and Back Again
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Two Most Important Rules for Writers' Finances
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The Write Way and The Wrong Way
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Anora--The New Worst Movie Ever
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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There Are Patterns in Film - Can You Spot Them?
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Sex, Violence, and Bambi
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Let's Talk About Vaginas in Movies
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Immigration, Diversity, and American Film
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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In Screenwriting, Story Is Everything
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Screenwriting With Your Audience In Mind
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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My Livestream - Part 2!
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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My Livestream - Part 1
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Truth and Authenticity in Film
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Cringing When I See "Based on a True Story"
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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George Lucas the Experimentalist
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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A Dirty Word in Hollywood: Experiment
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Never Underestimate the Loudness of Silence
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Mood Is Doom Spelled Backward
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Angry Queries
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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How Not to Get a Film Agent
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Attention!
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Let's Talk About Query Letters
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Intellectual Property and Paranoia
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Intellectual Property
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Hooray for Hollywood
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Leave Your Brain Outside the Theatre
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Art Versus Entertainment - Don't Let It Be A False Dichotomy
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Personal Screenplay
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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How Many Pages Should You Read Before Quitting a Book?
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Changes and Endings
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Free Parking, Rejection, and Screenwriting
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Reel Versus Real
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Screenplay Beginnings--Must a Script Explode on Page One?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Too Many Screens
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Nudity in Movies
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Will You Read My Screenplay?
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Why Titanic Is Good But Not Great
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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When Writing Love Stories, Don't Make This Mistake
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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How to Deal with Rejection
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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A Rare Thing in Film: Engaging the Audience
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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How to Write Strong Beginnings
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The True First Artist in Film
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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The Unsold Script
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Remember, Screenwriters: You'll Catch More Flies With Honey
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Praise Versus Kvetching
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Smoking and Integration
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Want to Get An Agent? Write to the Writer!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Climate Change and Screenwriting
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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What's Changed and What's Remained the Same In Movies
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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The Two Biggest Changes in Film
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Weinstein, Spacey... Let's Dispel the Myth of Mean Old Hollywood
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Animation and Horror
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Status of the Observer
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Excellent Versus Good
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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The Ideal Training for Hollywood
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May 31, 2024 |
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The Worst Movie I Ever Saw
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May 30, 2024 |
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Stereotypes in Movies - Use Them Or Ditch Them?
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May 29, 2024 |
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Jerking Off vs Making Love
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May 21, 2024 |
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An Underrated Book on Screenwriting: Plots and Characters
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May 14, 2024 |
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Civil War: My Thoughts
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May 13, 2024 |
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Two Threes
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May 09, 2024 |
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Pain In Narrative
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May 08, 2024 |
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Brainy Writers Must Never Forget: The Heart Is Smart
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May 06, 2024 |
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Reel Versus Real
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May 03, 2024 |
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Great Protagonists are Dreadful People
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Identity and Community
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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This and That
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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What I've Been Watching, Loving, and Loathing Lately
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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How to Get the Script Reader to Not Reject Your Screenplay
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How to Get the Script Reader to Not Reject Your Screenplay
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Implication Versus Expression
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Imply vs Express
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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In Film, Entertainment is Not a Dirty Word
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Seven Dirty Words in Hollywood
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Screenwriters and Distractions
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Goals and Guilt
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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My Thoughts on Oppenheimer
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Encountering Jack London in the Waiting Room
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Novel vs Screenplay
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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I've Just Published a Book!
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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We Are Trained to Write Too Much - Throw More Away
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Screenwriters - Learn to Throw It Away
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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That Time I Pretended Not to Be the Author of My Own Novel
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Naivety is the Writer's Friend
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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A Trio of Triumvirates - Part II
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Trio of Triumvirates
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Want a Free Copy of My New Book?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Whatever You Do, Make Your Screenplay Personal -- Like Star Wars
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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In Hollywood You Start from the Top and Work Your Way Down
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Key to Great Screenwriting? Being a Human
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Writing Rule #1: There Are No Rules
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Creativity and Patterns
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Creativity and Patterns
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Hamas, Israel, and Screenwriting
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Big Money
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Screenwriters- Get Out of Your Own Way
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Testicles and Freedom of Speech
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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How to Wreck Your Writing Career - Part 6
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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How to Wreck Your Writing Career - Part 5
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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How to Wreck Your Writing Career - Part III
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Some More Ways to Wreck Your Writing Career
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Various Ways to Wreck Your Writing Career
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Here's Another Handy Trick If You Want More Action in Your Screenplay: Give Your Actors Something to Do
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Here's a Handy Trick If You Want More Action in Your Screenplay
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Should Screenwriters Still Use Gender Specific Names in 2024?
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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It Is the Movie's Job to Keep the Audience Awake, Not the Other Way Around
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Is Your Intelligence Not Helping Your Writing Career? Instead of Smart, Try Stupid
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Big Chill, American Graffiti, and the Collective Protagonist
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Dialogue Versus Dialect
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What "Da Jewz by Da Hood" Can Teach Us About Diversity in Screenwriting
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Is It Time for a Writer-Owned Netflix?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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What the Writer's Strike Means for Writers
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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First the Writers, Then the Actors
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The Writer Strike Is Over-- But the Actors Soldier On
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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The WGA Strike Is Over
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Why American Films Are More Successful Internationally Than Other Countries
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Beyond black, white, gay, straight, old, young, rich, poor... we need diversity in film.
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Screenwriters Know the Truth: Different Is Better
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Attention Deficit Is Here to Stay
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The Best Dialogue is No Dialogue
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Novel vs Screenplay
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Identities: Intersectionality or Taxonomy?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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What Is the Value of Screenwriting?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Biggest Mistake Screenwriters Make: Writing Far Too Much
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Authenticity Is Massively Overrated in Screenwriting
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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My Review of Barbie, and Why It's Okay to Hate Movies
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Let's Talk About Barbies and Vaginas
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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My Opening Thoughts on Oppenheimer
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Actor Ronald Reagan's Advice to Screenwriters
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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What Font Should I Use for My Screenplay?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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How Many Drafts Of My Screenplay Should I Write?
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Screenwriting Format: How Many Pages Should My Script Be?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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How to Format a Screenplay
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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How to Know Your Screenplay's Theme
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Is It Time to Stop Screenwriting Scenes in Restaurants?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Is It Time to Stop Screenwriting Scenes in Restaurants?
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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If I Could Re-Name My Book on Screenwriting, I'd Call It "Appearances"
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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No I Will Not Read Your F*****g Screenplay
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Dialogue
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Guilt and Goals: Use Both On Your Screenwriting Journey
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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A Reckoning Is Coming for Privilege in Public Education
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The F-Word
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Screenwriters Rarely Get the Credit They Deserve
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Spoilers - Part I
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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AI and Film
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May 24, 2023 |
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Should Writers Fear Artificial Intelligence?
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May 23, 2023 |
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The New Dead Ringers Doesn't Work
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May 22, 2023 |
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Hate Speech in Films
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May 18, 2023 |
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How to Sell a Screenplay
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May 05, 2023 |
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How to Sell a Screenplay
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May 04, 2023 |
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How Do I Protect My Screenwriting Ideas?
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May 01, 2023 |
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What Screenwriters Must Learn from Cult Leaders
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The Absolute, Irrefutable, Undeniable #1 Rule for Screenwriting in Hollywood
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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"Cinema" vs Film
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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In Screenwriting, Goals Are Your Enemy
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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In Screenwriting, Imperfect is Perfect
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Personal Pronouns and Gender in Screenwriting
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Three Rules for Creating Singular Characters
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Ideas Are Overvalued
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Context Is Everything - Part 2
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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There Are Two Movies That Depict the Same Scene With Absolute Opposite Goals
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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The Love Story in Titanic Doesn't Work
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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History is a Story
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Can't Break Into Hollywood? Save the Rage for the Page
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Being a Celebrity Has Its Downsides
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Character V. Story
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The "Best" Movies of 2022
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How Authentic Should My Screenplay Be?
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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When Writing Screenplays, Don't Try to Teach a Lesson--Just Tell a Good Story
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Script Stuck? Take Out the Improvements
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Want to Read My Hate Mail?
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The New N-Word
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Writing Mistakes That Amateur Screenwriters Make - Part II
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Writing Mistakes That Amateur Screenwriters Make - Part I
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Genre Shmenrah
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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The Greatest Film of All Time - Part II
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Greatest Film of All Time - Really?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part II
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part I
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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How to Be a Professional Screenwriter
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Is Writer's Block Real?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Why See a Movie Twice?
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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What Is the Ultimate Purpose of Storytelling, If There Is One?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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A Key to Great Screenwriting: Keep It Personal
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Three Cheers for Judas Iscariot
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Should We Ban Smoking in Movies?
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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What Peace In the Middle East Can Teach Us About Screenwriting
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Should I Reverse-Engineer My Screenplay Around an Ending, a Scene, or an Emotion?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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One of the Biggest Amateur Screenwriting Mistake: Making Your Villains Villainous
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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How Much Technology Does a Screenwriter Really Need?
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Are Commercial Movies Pure Garbage?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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How to Nail a Query Letter to Agents
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Should I Write My Next Screenplay By Hand?
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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How the Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation Can Help Screenwriters
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Is Citizen Kane Actually a Great Movie?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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The Process Is What Separates screenwriters from Screenwriters
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Are High Concept Ideas Overrated?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Screenwriters: Nothing Is Better Than Something
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Finance 101 for Writers
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Film Dialogue Shouldn't Sound Like Real Life
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Whether You're A Writer, Director, or Actor... Little Things Mean a Lot
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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As A Screenwriter, Is "Save the Cat" Worth Following?
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Can You Really Teach Screenwriting?
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Auteur Theory Is Pure Bull$hit
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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What is the Purpose of Stories and Movies?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The Birmingham Cop
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Embrace the Creative Process
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Seven Naughty Words in Hollywood That You Should Absolutely Embrace
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Authenticity in Film is Boring
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Can Screenwriting Books Guide Novel Writing?
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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The Backstory to American Graffiti
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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What's the Secret to Training So Many Oscar-Winning Screenwriters?
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Want to Write A Better Movie? Think Like a Real Estate Agent
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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How Accurate Do Screenwriters Need to Be When Writing Screenplays Based on True Stories?
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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In the Age of Mass Shootings, Should We Still Have Guns in Movies?
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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After 50 Years in Screenwriting, Here Are the Two Questions I Still Never Answer
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Bashing Hollywood Is Wildly Overrated
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Should Dialogue Have a Structure Like Screenplays?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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What's More Important - Story or Theme?
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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The Delete Key Is A Writer's Best Friend
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Should Screenwriters Read Shakespeare?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Overlapping Dialogue
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Hired, Fired, Hired Again - A Hollywood Yarn About Trusting the Process
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Adapting Your Own Screenplay As a Novel
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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A Safe Space
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May 18, 2022 |
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Diversity In Screenwriting
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May 17, 2022 |
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How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 2
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May 13, 2022 |
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How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 1
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May 12, 2022 |
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How Many Characters Should I Have in My Screenplay?
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May 03, 2022 |
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Do the Pentagon and CIA Fund War Films to Inculturate Americans?
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May 03, 2022 |
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The Two Questions I've Never Answered
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Violence in Screenplays
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Is It Better to Outline My Screenplay or Just Start Writing?
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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The Power of Non-Violence In Life and Movies
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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The Slap Heard 'Round the World
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The Science of Storytelling (Part 2)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Is There A Science to Storytelling?
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Should I Box Myself In By Picking A Genre Or Just Start Writing?
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The Importance of Great Endings
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Screenwriting Books
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Should I Copyright My Screenplay?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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What Is the Absolute Minimum, Maximum, and Ideal Length of a Screenplay?
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Screenwriting Word You Need to Know: GOOYOW
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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When Execs/Producers/Directors Ruin Good Screenwriting
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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How to Ramp Up the Energy of Your Screenplay By Using Better Locations
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The Pros and Cons of Prologues and Flashbacks in Screenwriting
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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My Screenplays Get Optioned But Never Sell. What Should I Do?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Stereotypes Will Ruin Your Script
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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The Worst Writing Job I Ever Had
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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How to Stay Excited While Writing Screenplays
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Writer's Block
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The Two Best Lines of Dialogue I've Ever Heard
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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What Was the Worst Script of 2021?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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The Scariest Movies I Have Ever Seen
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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The Most Interesting Screenwriter I've Ever Met
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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How Can Screenwriters Avoid Leaving Out Necessary Plot Points?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Hollywood Hoaxes That Screenwriters Need to Know
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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How Do You Know When Your Script is Ready?
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Should I Use the N-Word in My Screenplay?
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Should Screenwriters Describe Characters or Leave It to Casting?
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Should My Story Be a Novel or Screenplay?
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Don't Let Perfection Destroy Your Screenwriting Ambitions
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Screenwriters: You Need a Teacher
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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When To Give Up on Screenwriting
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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The Narcissism of Hollywood Screenwriters
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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If You Don't Care About What You're Writing, Why Would Anyone Else?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Directors Yell "Action!" Not "Description!"
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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People In Positions of Authority Don't Know What They're Talking About
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Backup Girl
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Zorro's Back
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The Elevator Pitch
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Proud Confession: I Am Sexist
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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When A Screenplay Doesn't Sell, It's Just the Beginning
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Here's What Makes the Best Story
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Oct 26, 2021 |