writerlyn: For the Black List, I generally think “wait for it”. Because it has enough brand name recognition that it can become really really good. But it sure as heck isn’t there yet.
Read moreCLONE SCRIPTS: THE W.E.S.
I love men. I love their gorgeous big hands and their strong shoulders and their smoldery smiles. I love it when they fight over me and offer me the moon on a string and rescue me and helplessly adore me… Oh, wait. Just up to the smoldery smiles. After that it’s a romance novel, which…
Read moreOH MY GOD
If you really do think there are only these two options, and at least three of each express interest in your protag in the first twenty pages, you have a SERIOUS PROBLEM. Come on, guys. And you are guys, because women don’t write these scripts…you are shooting yourself in the face with this. You undermine…
Read morebetter-than-kanye-bitchh: a true role model Behold: a character, a premise, a motivation, tension, conflict… I can’t wait til she finds out, either. Shazam. Story.
Read moreIf you’re still unfulfilled after receiving what you’ve wanted, you’re not aware of what you need. Awakened Vibrations (via awakenedvibrations) This is how screenplays work, too.
Read moreHow to dialogue. Set up an expectation, turn it inside out. The Addams Family was written by: Charles Addams … (characters) Caroline Thompson … (written by) & Larry Wilson … (written by)
Read moreBurning Hannibal Questions
1. What in the hell is he wearing? 2. Why would Jack ever eat over there? 3. What circle of hell is the Mid-Atlantic that you can’t swing a cat without hitting two artistic-genius-psychopath-serial killers at once? 4. Why do you need a cane after you’ve been disemboweled? 5. Was Bedelia Du Maurier prescribing Thorazine…
Read moreYou don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. Octavia E. Butler (via wordpainting) Here’s that quote I was talking about. (via evelynnalfred)
Read moreTHE GUY THINGS HAPPEN TO
I don’t know where it comes from, but it’s a clone trait in a bad script, so be vigilant in your art. This person, ostensibly the center of the script, whose story it is, is no one special, has a job, some friends, family, things they like to do. And then something happens, and the…
Read moreVISUALLY INTRODUCING A CHARACTER
Because of Tumblr, I started watching Hannibal and inadvertently fell wildly in love with Mads Mikkelsen’s voice. That’s not really an unusual thing for me, btw. So I went over to Netflix to check out some Danish films, and found a perfect visual character intro for you in the first ten seconds of Adam’s Apples….
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