lifeascaty: Thank you so much to everyone who sent me messages, commented, or reblogged on my screenwriting post last night. It meant a hell of a lot hearing about similar experiences and just general messages of support. This will sound silly, but I was so ridiculously wound up and annoyed about it that I couldn’t…

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horrorpunk: I’m starting to think I rented the wrong version of Halloween.

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lifeascaty: I am probably going to be complaining about this outline for the next couple of months, but I am getting so frustrated with the whole freaking process. Essentially, most of my characters are women, and it’s mythology and female legacy etc. It is/was a story about women. I didn’t really want a love interest,…

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thisoldbitch: pennyredful: Girl u know it’s true Brilliant.

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Notes from a Screenreader: Pitch Me

nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Ninety seconds is more than enough time to pitch a well-defined story. The elements that make a story interesting and easy to envision, when stripped of less important trappings, can fit on an index card. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Austin Film Festival Pitch Finale…

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Terry’s Picks: A ‘Toolkit’ to Prove Women-Led Projects Make Money, ‘Dear White People’ & Salke Is Honored

nywift: Dear White People. Cheering on: NYWIFT member Lydia Dean Pilcher. She’s working with the Producers Guild of America to create a “toolkit” of stats to prove that women-led projects are lucrative business both here and abroad. Recommending: Dear White People, a film produced by Lena Waithe and Ann Le. I was especially impressed by Tessa Thompson’s…

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rlaph: did she really confuse cannibals with cannon balls This is why I worry.

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A beginning, a ‘muddle’, and an end. Philip Larkin (commenting on formula writing structure)

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fuckyeahdirectors: Eli Craig with Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine and Philip Granger on-set of Tucker & Dale VS Evil (2010) It’s REAL!

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