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“I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Whether you’re drafting your very first short screenplay or you’re a seasoned veteran with half a dozen features under your belt, the time will always come for feedback on your wri...
“Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least that is my view) at our age, so long as we write…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“It doesn’t matter what we write so long as we write continually as well as we can.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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“To me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
People are always asking me what the "secret sauce" is for a great screenplay. If there was some condiment you would put on every spec to make it great, I would be slathering that...
By Anna Vodicka In a famous University of Cambridge lecture, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch instructed young writers: “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally...
Write what you know. We’ve all heard that line so many times that it’s become a cliché, and we usually take it to mean writing about things we personally know and understand. Excep...
I’m celebrating the blog’s 18th birthday by shining a spotlight on some of the site’s many resources for screenwriters.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
A student recently asked, looking at the bookshelf in my office, “How did all these people get from here to there? From words on a screen to bound on the shelf?” I started to give...
“You can make anything by writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“People read fiction for emotion… not for information.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
By Allison K Williams As an editor, I see a lot of explaining. The family history the reader “has to know to understand the story.” The reflection from the narrator mid-scene, clar...
“Usually it’s about hiding whatever you wrote. The first time through people tend to tell each other what the scene is about, and in life…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
If you've worked on enough screenplays, you know how insane it can be to describe someone walking across a room for the umpeenth time. It can cross your eyes and make you feel like...
Essay writing format is one of the most important skills you must build.No matter if you are a college junior struggling to write a 20+-page research paper or a high school student...
Nothing yanks me out of a story faster than a plot hole. If they’re really stupid, I get mad. And I quit reading or watching. That disconnect doesn’t just “break immersion”, it bre...
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