The Role Of The Film Narrator I love the cosy, intimate quality of a good narration. It’s like someone reading you a bedtime story.
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Read moreAll That Writing Advice
It’s just one piece of advice. Write an entertaining story in a specific format. Taking a class is worth it. Here’s one I did a hundred years ago, at UCLA Extension which is $555. Or, hell. I’ll teach you that, now that I’m thinking about it. It’s not hard to learn, but it’s a Q&A style…
Read moreHeroesandHeartbreakers Seeks Romance Stories for Possible Publication – Pays $1,000+ Advance
writingcareer: HeroesandHeartbreakers.com, a popular social network of diehard romance readers and authors, is inviting writers to submit short romance manuscripts for possible publication. The site has updated its submission guidelines with new word lengths and pay rates. The editors will consider short stories, 15k-30K words, as well as novellas (30K-50K words) and category-length works (up to…
Read moreannerocious: annerocious: wolfmansgotnards: annerocious: (via Limerence – A Mindbending Short Film about Lovesickness by Glass City Films — Kickstarter) Check this out! I consulted on this script last year, and now it’s a gorgeous trailer and a staff pick at kickstarter. Thanks, tumblr film community, for connecting me with writer/director Dan Pedersen. Holy shit gang….
Read moreThat Danish Girl
“Redmayne, who rightly won an Oscar for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, acts only in a series of awkward, coy smiles, with eyes downcast. That’s what he does, over and over, until I quite wanted to punch him, while crying: ‘Look up, look up! For Christ’s sake, just look up!’”…
Read morewriteascreenplay: Screenwriting 101: Akira Kurosawa “With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.” — Akira Kurosawa
Read moreThe Business of Screenwriting: Trailer Moments, Set Pieces and Bits Of Business (BOBs)
writeascreenplay: The Business of Screenwriting: Trailer Moments, Set Pieces and Bits Of Business (BOBs) You may have read countless screenwriting books. Attended seminars. Taken courses. But I doubt if you have stumbled across these three items in any tome related to the craft: Trailer Moments, Set Pieces, and Bits Of Business. These may have come up…
Read moreOur true stories were lousy. Our stories were slick black things that we spit out of our mouths onto the table in front of us. We were trying to sell something. We were trying to sell our loneliness, and no one was buying. And we were getting tired of dark looming things. We were getting…
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