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POSTED IN Book Reviews, Featured ON Sep 2, 2010
Screenwriting: Writing Drama (14)
Yves Lavandier’s book Writing Drama currently rates as the absolute favorite of our book reviewer Jack Brislee. To give you the opportunity to...
POSTED IN Featured, Video ON Sep 1, 2010
Video: Animal Kingdom
One of the most highly acclaimed Australian films of recent years and definitely the only one I have been looking forward to see after continuing...
POSTED IN Featured, Story & Structure ON Aug 31, 2010
Learn From My Mistakes
Recently a thought occurred to me. Two of the short films I produced each have the exact same story problem. I will explain it to you, so you have no...
POSTED IN Featured, MM on Monday ON Aug 30, 2010
The Serial Killer Hero
How should a writer handle a story in which the protagonist is a serial killer? It’s an interesting dilemma, isn’t it? Because every...
POSTED IN Best of the Web, Featured ON Aug 29, 2010
Best o/t Web 29 Aug
:: Character flaws: mistakes must be earned! :: Polishing your treatment, some advice. :: The real story on rewriting: get the big picture. :: James...
POSTED IN Featured, Guest Contributions ON Aug 27, 2010
You Can’t Write This
You’re a writer, right? At least you’re in some way intrigued by the movie industry or else you wouldn’t be here. So, you’ve...
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Learn From My Mistakes
Recently a thought occurred to me. Two of the short films I produced each have the exact same story...
Script Perfection
In Late, Out Early
When Goldman wrote “get in late and leave early”, he was not talking about how you watch a bad...
Pitching & Selling
Michael Wiese teaches scr...
Most questions I receive from screenwriters are about how and where to pitch. In fairness, their scripts are...
Writing Drama (11)
Yves Lavandier’s book Writing Drama currently rates as the absolute favorite of our book reviewer Jack...
Sex in Screenwriting (4)
Screenwriter David Freeman’s wrote a great book The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock. David worked with Hitch on what...
Writing Drama (10)
Yves Lavandier’s book Writing Drama currently rates as the absolute favorite of our book reviewer Jack...
Sex in Screenwriting (3)
Sex can gauge the health and stability of a relationship. The great Peter Ustinov, Mr. Hercule Poirot himself, once...
My Writing Journey
posted on: Jul 31, 2010 | author: Nigel Graves
The Story Department is a platform for sharing screenwriting insights and writing tips but we also regularly publish stories of writers at the...
Writing Drama (9)
posted on: Jul 29, 2010 | author: Karel Segers
Yves Lavandier’s book Writing Drama currently rates as the absolute favorite of our book reviewer Jack Brislee. To give you the opportunity to...
Writing Ozu with Sake
posted on: Jul 28, 2010 | author: Karel Segers
Thank you to FilmmakerIQ.com for this clip from the 1983 documentary I Lived But … The Life and Works of Yasujiro Ozu. It features interviews...
Sex in Screenwriting (2)
posted on: Jul 26, 2010 | author: Karel Segers
George Bernard Shaw once wrote “A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel...
Best o/t Web 25 Jul 10
posted on: Jul 25, 2010 | author: Solmaaz
:: Wizard of Oz, a flop? Since when? :: My project sold in Hollywood! Except it’s not my project, it’s my project’s evil twin. ::...
Screenplays from Estonia
posted on: Jul 23, 2010 | author: Elver Loho
It’s 4 AM. I am not writing. I am waiting. It’s that feeling of nervous energy contrasted with heavy eyelids on dry, malfunctioning...
