“… I read a story once about Barbra Streisand at a recording session. She did take after take of the same song. The reporter telling the story said he couldn’t tell the difference between Take One and Take Two, or even Take One and Take Nine. But, he said, he could tell the difference between […]

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Mark Kratter just completed a script-for-hire adaptation of a well-known graphic novel for Stephen L’Heureux of Solipsist Films.
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“… (A) fleeting moment between two strangers …”
(via Alyssa Milano)
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“… I’ve been back with the writers for a month now, and today was the first day I felt like I actually plugged back into the show.  I finished a first draft of episode 301 this week, but it wasn’t until I mulled, sorted and boarded 302 that I felt reconnected to the process of […]

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“… The danger … is that writers work so hard to nail the dialect that they think they’ve created a character and a scene. But you can wind up with a lot of dialect and no good dialogue.
“Thinking about it — it’s very easy to write a guy with a thick lower class accent and […]

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“Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don’ts …”
(via NevadaGrey and Danny Stack)
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Dylan Callaghan interviewed Laeta Kalogridis at the Writers Guild of America, West site.
“… The novel has a very cinematic structure. For me the difficult part was choosing what to leave out and what to combine. There are some very disparate story elements. It was a choice in the screenplay to try and make the viewer […]

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“… For agents and managers, absolutely mention that it had been optioned. Anything which shows that producers are interested in your work makes you more attractive as a potential client.
“Producers and production companies aren’t necessarily going to be excited that someone else had the project before them….”

Go to John August’s place …

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Stephen J. Cannell (21 Jump Street, Wiseguy, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, The Rockford Files) shares some of his secrets in a free online writing seminar free hosted at his Web site.
“… Part One - The discipline of writing, Part Two - How to choose your story, Part Three - Creating characters, Part Four […]

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Charlie R Barnett has been hired by director Jose L. Arjona to write the script for “In The Memories” (En La Memoria).
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Don Macnab-Stark and co-writer Rhys Trenhaile have had their script “The Bulldogs” optioned by Canadian producer Jeff Nadalin.
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Lee Tidball is now being represented by Jo-Ann Carol of Monteiro Rose Dravis Agency.
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“Every writer on this year’s annual Santa Barbara Film Festival ‘It Starts with a Script’ panel wrote a screenplay that was personal, on some level—even Up writer-director Pete Docter and Star Trek‘s Alex Kurtzman. And they all mixed up their genres, too….”
Go to Anne Thompson’s place …

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“… One of the best classes I ever took on screenwriting was SOLELY on premise. Every week we had to come up with three loglines for movie ideas and stand up and read them aloud to the class. We each put a dollar into a pot and the class voted on the best premise of […]

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John Robert Marlow interviewed Terry Rossio recently about the business of screenwriting.
“… Early in the process I want to focus on the ending. Nothing else matters, nothing will happen, no project will be begun or get anywhere or make any progress at all until the ending is known. If there is no satisfying ending, or […]

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