#WritingAdviceWednesday – Writing Exercises: Through Objects
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Describe One Thing and Define Another
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#WritingAdviceWednesday – Creating Urgency
Continue readingWriting Exercises: Test Your Character
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Moving out of your comfort zone
Continue readingWriting Exercise: Forgive But Don’t Forget
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Forgiveness is an action
Continue readingWriting Exercises: Picture Perfect
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Good stories have a central image
Continue readingWriting Exercises: Learn From The Best
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Good writers read other good writers
Continue readingWriting Action
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Good stories are clear
Continue readingBig Finish
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Memorable Endings
Continue readingMake Room for Anxiety
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Remember A Room
Continue readingWhat About You?
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Writer’s Block
Continue readingFeelings First
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Memorable Movie Moments
Continue readingWriting Exercises: The Grand Reveal
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Reveals in a Story
Continue readingWriting Exercises: Losing Control
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Getting Angry
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#WritingAdviceWednesday – Taking Out The Garbage
Continue readingWriting Exercises: Talk To Me
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Bubble Talk
Continue readingSilence Is Strength
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Media Fast
Continue readingWriting Exercises: On The Job
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Another day, another dollar
Continue readingLove Is In The Air
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Kiss and Tell
Continue readingWriting Exercise: Risky Business
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Taking A Risk
Continue readingWriting Exercise: Cars and Chairs
#WritingAdviceWednesday – On The Move
Continue readingHow Do You Eat an Elephant?
#MondayMusings – The value of incremental progress
Continue readingThe One Hour Screenwriter eCourse
GET TO THE HEART OF THE STORY®
This comprehensive course breaks the screenwriting process down into simple steps that can be accomplished in just one hour a day. You will never be stuck or stymied again. Finally finish your screenplay!
Continue readingRepetition and Reflection
It turns out that just putting in hours and hours at your chosen writing work is not enough; the only way to get better is to make sure you’re devoting those hours to what the researchers call “deliberate practice.”
Continue readingThe Value of Incremental Change
Writing just one hour day can produce a new script in just 22 weeks, using The One Hour Screenwriter eCourse. That means you could complete two new scripts a year with weekends off and eight weeks of vacation time or time for rewrites. And that’s while holding a full-time job, meeting social and family obligations and all the other duties in a busy life.
Continue readingMake a Plan
Managing our time needs to become a ritual too. Not simply a list or a vague sense of our priorities. That’s not consistent or deliberate. It needs to be an ongoing process we follow no matter what to keep us focused on our priorities throughout the day.
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 readingFear and How to Use It
“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” Samuel Butler (English novelist, essayist and critic). Truer words were never spoken. A character’s fear is the greatest burden he or she carries. It is the constant “static” the character cannot escape.
Continue readingPelham 123 and Duplicity – Unsatisfying Endings
The endings of The Taking of Pelham 123 and Duplicity left me shrugging and saying “Huh?” Both were box office duds. The lesson from both films is “earn your ending.”
Continue readingWriting Routine
I discovered a great website that discusses how various writers and artists approach their work and organize their day. Below is a discussion of the simple method Anthony Trollope used to write forty-nine novels in thirty-five years!
Continue reading#WritingAdviceWednesday – Making It Personal
#WritingAdviceWednesday – Quit obsessing and start writing.
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