promptsandpointers: Pointer :  Know your ending. It’s where everything has to come together. It’s often easier to work backwards than to pull out of the aether.  the aether in this case means your butt.

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The 7 Deadly Dialogue Sins – Script Magazine

The 7 Deadly Dialogue Sins – Script Magazine screenwritinginspiration: 1. Obvious exposition. 2. Exaggeration. 3. Derivative dialogue. Avoid clichés and lines we’ve heard in other movies. 4. Everyday pleasantries. Avoid chit-chat, unless it is original and interesting. 5. Unnecessary repetition. It creates a sense of stasis, and the story feels like it’s dragging. 6. No…

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tiger-stripped-cat: “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles

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I threw away 1,200 finished pages, pages I could’ve published, that were publishable, because they sucked. There was something — it’s not that I made stuff up, but there was something untrue about them. … I actually broke the delete button off my keyboard writing that book, and I always say if I had any…

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getawaywithgifs: Viola Davis cried to a wooden dummy

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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: September 2016 U.S. releases directed by women September 2White Girl dir. Elizabeth Wood (LIMITED) September 9 Cameraperson dir. Kirsten Johnson (LIMITED)As I Open My Eyes dir. Leyla Bouzid (LIMITED) September 16Bridget Jones’s Baby dir. Sharon Maguire (WIDE) September 23The Dressmaker dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse (LIMITED)My Blind Brother dir. Sophie Goodheart (LIMITED + VOD)The Queen of Katwe dir. Mira Nair…

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womenscreenwriters: September Releases Written or Co-Written by Women September 2 White Girl – written and directed by Elizabeth Wood (USA – Limited) A college student falls hard for a bad boy and then goes to wild extremes to get him back. September 7 The Stopover – written and directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin (FRANCE)…

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365filmsbyauroranocte: Films watched in 2016. #135: Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, 2012) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

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