It is always an exciting day when a ProSeries finishes up and the group graduates into the ProSeries Alumni.
Today, ProSeries 24 is making that transition.  They have worked hard for six months to get here and will be a valuable addition to our amazing network.
Please welcome them with open arms.

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Jeannette Wolfe had her Sci Fi screenplay “Quantum Shift” optioned by Producer Corey Lomax with Psych Ward Productions.
Details at Screenwriting Buzz. 

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At producer and story analyst Karel Segers’ site, The Story Department, Jeff Kitchen discusses how to cut nonessential material by starting with the object of the script, the final effect that demonstrates it, and working methodically back to the beginning.
“… A dramatic plot in any genre should tend to have good cause and effect such […]

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“Can a bench tell a story?
“Professor Henry Jenkins raised this topic in his very first class at USC three months ago.
“The benches refer to advertisements for ‘District 9′ placed at bus stops nationwide, with the tag line ‘Bus bench for humans only,’ playing on the science-fiction film’s apartheid allegory. Jenkins argues that the benches are […]

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Marvin V. Acuna says it’s about the craft, market intelligence, and networking. An article in three parts.
Go to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 …

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“… Writing and getting away from your fear, is to me… You know, you might not sell a script.  You might not be good.  You might not this and you might not that.  What’s the point in going down that path?  There is none.  I know it’s tough to say, ‘Don’t be afraid,’ or ‘Think […]

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Amanda Costa has acquired the rights to a book about Annie Londonderry, the first woman to go around the world on a bicycle.
More details at Screenwriting BUZZ …

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“… The relentless grind of small indignities. The cumulative blessings of small victories. Honor, cheating, ego, sacrifice, suspense …”
Go to John Rogers’s place …

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Dr. G. Kim Blank, Department of English, University of Victoria, maintains a list of words and phrases that should be eliminated or tweaked on rewrites.
“… Let me try an analogy. Think of your writing in the same way you think about all the stuff you own. Now think of having a yard sale. What you […]

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Kristin Thompson discussed Guillermo del Toro’s audio commentary on the Eureka! DVD edition of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr at the Observations on film art site.
“… del Toro suggests that Dreyer was influenced by Un chien andalou. Not that he created a surrealist vampire film but that he felt freed from the necessity to follow a […]

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Sonia Laszlo interviewed ProSeries Writer Kevin Lee Miller, one of three grand-prize winners in the 2009 Final Draft Big Break Contest, for German World Magazine.
“… One second I was in a galaxy where I sat alone in a room with my computer and a bunch of people I made up in my head.  The next […]

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“… Noah Lukeman was a literary agent. He knows all about going home on the weekend with stacks of manuscripts, 99.9% of which will turn out to be useful only as liners for the bottoms of canary cages. How did he save himself from slogging through yet another 1200-page epic on the fall of the […]

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“… A lot happens in between the writer trying to do the best he/she can and what you finally see on the screen. Sometimes, when the planets align, it’ll be just right. Other times, the development or production process might have knocked the script off course, and several grubby fingers may have bent it out […]

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“… I did not start writing screenplays to sell dolls, but many of my favorite films have action figures… no, not CASABLANCA, but ALIENS does. So, for a while, if I have a choice between the story idea that can sell to multiple markets or a story idea that can only be a movie, I’m […]

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Missed episodes of Kevin Pollak’s USTREAMed Sunday evening talk show (5:00p Pacific, 8:00p Eastern) are available at YouTube as well as kevinpollakschatshow.com.
“… ‘Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show’ is streamed on the Internet, and there’s no reason to stop a good interview — not for time slots, not for commercials and certainly not for censors. The long-format […]

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