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Draft Development
- Formatting Scripts To Sell
- From One to Many
- How important are format and style?
- How thick is your skin?
- How To Write A Great Script
- How to Write a Readable Script
- In Late, Out Early
- Introducing Names
- Its time to stop looking stupid
- Mental Spackle
- Perfect Formatting
- POV Jack: [the movie]
- Script Check: DAY / NIGHT
- Script Development - Step by Step
- Secondary Headings
- Strip the Script
- Technology and Screenwriting 2.0
- Ten Format Mistakes
- The (Necessary) Evil of Dialogue
- The Art of Dialects (2)
- The Dirty Draft
- The Timid Screenwriter (2)
- Translating Visions
- Trust the Reader
- What You're Up Against
- Who get their first films/scripts made?
- Write the Shots (2)
- Write the Shots! (1)
- Your fastest draft ever
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Guest Contributions
- A Filmmaker Speaks (2): Making It.
- A Grant Winner's Praise and Gripes
- Agents: Some Fine Print
- Alien: Sex in deep space
- Animation Imagination
- Beat Writer’s Block
- Blake Snyder - A Giant Shadow
- Bringing Up Baby
- Can't get ME out of my mind.
- Character Change vs. Revelation
- Chick Flick
- Confessions of a Scriptwriter (1)
- Confessions of a Scriptwriter (2)
- Confessions of a Scriptwriter (3)
- Cut the Second Draft Paste
- Desire: the Primacy of Purpose
- Farewell, Blake
- Formatting Scripts To Sell
- Guilty Pleasures
- Hollywood's Best Kept Secret
- How To Write A Great Script
- How to Write a Readable Script
- How, Not If
- I Don't Believe In Scripts (2)
- I don't believe in scripts. (1)
- If you can dream it …
- Introducing Minor Characters
- Is screenwriting for me? (1)
- Is screenwriting for me? (2)
- Kenny - Plumbing the depths
- Leave the Right Things Out
- Marketing The Epic Story
- Mental Spackle
- My Writing Journey
- NCS '09: What did I miss?
- Never, ever leave your vehicle.
- Optimizing Your Pitch
- OZ Filmers: "If they only loved us."
- Pitching’s Holy Trinity
- Screenplays from Estonia
- Screenwriting Expo - Day 1
- Screenwriting Expo: Day 2 & 3
- Screenwriting for Editing
- Script Development - Step by Step
- Strip the Script
- The 4 Challenges of Adaptation
- The Deadline Approach
- The Dirty Draft
- The Golden Boy of the Black List
- The Hidden Tools of Comedy (1)
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News
- Anyone Can Cook
- Better Things to Come
- Bring on the Hero
- Chris Weekes tops The Black List
- Creative Master Ron Cobb
- Dang! It's Purple?!?
- Diagnosis: Obsession
- Do you have the tools?
- Elephant in the Room
- Farewell Mystery Man
- First, Break All the Rules
- For the Love of the Blog
- iPhone on ... and "Fade In"
- iPhone Reloaded
- Jaws Structure scores 1,000+ views
- Just Ad(d) Words
- Karel at WordCamp Australia
- Killing My Darlings
- Mid-Point: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- NOT Story
- OZ Film Vs. OZ Audience
- PUPPY: First Ozzy Indie on BluRay
- Screenwriting Expo: Day 2 & 3
- Scripped.com and Zhura.com merge
- Seizing the Sword
- Snapshot (that'll never be)
- Stop digging: Holy Grail found!
- Stop Reading Scripts
- Structuring the Facts
- The Art of Romantic Comedy
- The best eggs come after Easter
- The Good Read
- The Main Man (m/f)
- The Mobile Dept.
- The Secret
- The Story Department in Top 50
- Two Dee Or Not Two Dee
- What just happened??
- Wonderful 2010!
- Writing in Sin
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Pitching and Selling
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Story and Structure Articles
- 7 Lessons from Mamet
- A Screenwriting Revolution!
- A Screenwriting Trilemma
- A Story within a (Toy) Story
- An ending left up in the air
- Arcs and Endings (1)
- Arcs and Endings (2)
- Arcs and Endings (3)
- Are you a Reverse Chess Master?
- Beat Writer’s Block
- Blade Runner: The 8 Mins First Act
- Character Change vs. Revelation
- Checklist: Active Protagonist
- Dances with Smurfs
- Desire: the Primacy of Purpose
- Don't Try This At Home
- Elements of Suspense (1)
- Elements of Suspense (2)
- Events vs. Actions
- Everyone Is Special (in OZ).
- Exposition in Cameron's The Abyss
- Flashbacks are Your Friend.
- Four flaws that kill your Hero.
- Hitch on Pure Cinema
- Hollywood's Best Kept Secret
- How To Write A Great Script
- How to Write a Story? (Video)
- How, Not If
- Inciting Incident: Definitions
- Inciting Incident: Event, not Action.
- Inciting Incident: Planting the Bomb
- Inventor or Innovator?
- Learn from other people's mistakes
- Logline: Definitions
- Logline: Examples
- Logline: Introduction
- Monomyth for Gamers
- Mystery Man on Melodrama
- Mystery Man vs. Sherlock Holmes: 1-0
- On Adaptations
- Plot => Character (Rituals => Tribe)
- Plot Point: Brainstorming Plot Points
- Plot Point: Introduction
- POV as Controller of Tone
- POV: McKee's View
- POV: Omniscient Point of View
- POV: Ratatouille's Deleted Scene
- POV: When to Shift?
- Set Your Story In A Small Little World
- Shifting POV
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Structural Analyses (Movie Breakdowns)
- Structure: Avatar
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- Structure: Gladiator
- Structure: Iron Man
- Structure: Jaws
- Structure: Juno
- Structure: Michael Clayton
- Structure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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- Structure: Shawshank Redemption
- Structure: Terminator 2
- Structure: The Incredibles
- Structure: The Untouchables
- Structure: Thelma & Louise
- Structure: Toy Story 1
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- Structure: Up
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