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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>August on using music</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1053</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Before you start writing any screenplay, make a playlist of music that feels like the movie. It’s a fundamental part of my process&#8230;.
&#8220;&#8230; Most of these songs would never be in your final movie. Rather, you are assembling music that reminds you of the feeling you’re trying to create. More crucially, you want music that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ProSeries writer hired to co-write script</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1052</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbrklyn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Mueller Bryson has been hired to co-write a screenplay based on a true life story about Sacramento area environmental activist Shelby Rodriguez.
More details at Screenwriting BUZZ &#8230;
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		<title>Niki on producing a Web series</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1051</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; Producing a web series is a lot of work. But because I got to set the goal, I also got to ensure that my efforts were in alignment with my goal. I discovered I love producing. I also love owning and controlling my own material, not to mention the feeling of controlling my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swanson with Fox</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1050</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neely Swanson interviewed 2010 WGA Access Project honoree Melody Fox about her &#8220;extraordinarily chilling&#8221; Sci-Fi pilot script, &#8220;Firefall.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8230; I like to start with the real science and if I considered these ideas as possible truths they became a jumping off point for me in developing the series. I thought, what if some sort of primitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reindl on pitching genre to television, and playing by the rules</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1049</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbrklyn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; It&#8217;s a fine line between something original, and something familiar enough for executives and audiences. Like, it&#8217;s SUCH a fine line that it practically exists in a quantum state. Schroedinger&#8217;s pitch. And it&#8217;s just as hard to pitch an original cop show as it is to pitch a familiar enough genre show. It&#8217;s just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stack and Clague on scriptwriting in the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1048</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; We had a fantastic response to our first foray into the podcast world, which we took as ample encouragement to continue. In this episode, we talk about the upcoming London Screenwriters&#8217; Festival, earning a living as a writer, the importance of a script&#8217;s first ten pages (inspired by Red Planet entries), and there&#8217;s reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale on the essential items of story</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1047</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; It is necessary to understand that a story is nothing but a series of items of information. The story teller informs the listener about persons and events&#8230;. The best approach is to ask: what is essential?&#8230;&#8221;
Go to Scott W. Smith&#8217;s place &#8230;
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		<title>Sokoloff on elevating the ending</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1046</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbrklyn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; Think about the endings of films and books that stay with you. What is that extra something they have that makes them stand out from all the hundreds and thousands of stories out there?&#8230;
&#8220;&#8230; As a storyteller the best thing you can do for your own writing technique is to make that list and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sutter on where the show&#8217;s at</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1045</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbrklyn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; All 13 episodes are broken.
&#8220;A writer&#8217;s draft of 313 is being written.
&#8220;I am currently working on my draft of 312.
&#8220;Adam Arkin is prepping 311&#8230;.&#8221;
Go to Kurt Sutter&#8217;s place &#8230;
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		<title>August on the easy part</title>
		<link>http://www.proseriesalumni.com/?p=1044</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkbrklyn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you’re having a hard time finding a character’s voice, get him talking about something unrelated to the scene at hand.
&#8220;Let your hero knock back a beer with his college roommate. Have your corporate spy meet-cute a potential suitor at a ski lodge. Pick situations that couldn’t possibly fit in your actual movie. You just [...]]]></description>
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