AFI Digital Storytelling Conference
The AFI DigiFest 2009 is a great opportunity to learn about cutting-edge storytelling and media prototypes created at AFI and across the country. Free registration and links here.
Continue readingWriter Access Project
The Writer Access Project is designed to identify excellent diverse writers with television experience and to bring these writers’ scripts to the attention of showrunners, creative executives and agents for consideration during staffing season. Info here.
Continue readingCall for eQuinoxe Entries
The Call for Projects for the eQuinoxe 6th. International Screenwriters´ Workshop & Master Class is beginning. The new online application is available now.
Continue readingMap Yourself
A good writer thoroughly understands his or her characters’ emotions, inner conflicts and the whole process of internal transformation. Great writers dig deep to find this emotional truth within themselves.
Continue readingJoyce Carol Oates: Why We Write
#BeFabFriday – Life has no meaning without the narrative we construct around it.
Continue readingVulnerability Scenes
Everyone who has heard me speak or teach knows how fundamental vulnerability is to making a movie or television show memorable. The way an audience BONDS with a character is through scenes where the character is vulnerable. Here are some of my favorites– what are yours?
Continue readingLaughing Until It Hurts
“Comedy is never the gaiety of things, it is the groan made gay,” wrote drama critic Walter Kerr. This is the great irony implicit in comedy. It feels good to walk out of a theater laughing. But we often go into the theater not feeling so good. Many times, what makes us laugh is seeing that other people are not feeling so good either.
Continue readingMobile Micro-Blog Novel Writing
The Micro-Blog Novel is shaking up a publishing industry that has been declining for a decade. An author of fiction is lucky to sell a few thousand copies of a title. A popular cell-phone novelist sells several hundred thousand, and recruitment for new talent is intense.
Continue readingWrite Every Day
Here’s how to put Martin Scorcese’s philosophy into practice every day. Below is a FREE LESSON from the One Hour Screenwriter eBook.
Continue readingCharacter Type Examples
#TypesTuesday – Here is a list of character examples.
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