womenscreenwriters: December Releases Written or Co-Written by Women December 1 Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (GERMANY) – written by Marie Noelle and Andrea Stoll Nobel Prize–winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie courted controversy with both her challenging of France’s male-dominated academic establishment and her unconventional romantic life. December 9 All We Had – written…
Read moresashayed: You guys, you must stop doing this. You must. We cannot keep yelling at you about it because it makes us so angry, and we are already angry all the time, about real things, like how our lives are turning into a real world Handmaid’s Tale, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha…
Read moreParable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents eerily prophetic
Read morecateblanchettsback: I love how Therese falls against the wall like she’s so in love she can’t even stand up. I can smell the perfume, honestly.
Read morevutong: Emma Stone, Ruth Negga, Isabelle Huppert, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman, Viola Davis, Sasha Lane, photographed by Jack Davison for The New York Times ‘Great Performers’, December 2016.
Read moreapskepner: sestra-bonding
Read more20 Basic Plots
thewritershandbook: 1. QUEST – the plot involves the Protagonist’s search for a person, place or thing, tangible or intangible (but must be quantifiable, so think of this as a noun; i.e., immortality). 2. ADVENTURE – this plot involves the Protagonist going in search of their fortune, and since fortune is never found at home, the…
Read moreFor Your Consideration – 2017
lifeascaty: It’s that time of year again! Awards Season is rapidly advancing and the studios are releasing scripts (for your consideration!). I’ll update as more become available. Anthropoid – Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin The Birth of a Nation – Nate Parker Bridget Jones’s Baby – Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson Captain…
Read moreFBI in My House
FBI: Searching every crevice for evidence. Behind the couch. Under the fridge. In the bathroom fan. In the oven. Me: *cringing* FBI: WHO RAISED YOU? DO YOU EVEN OWN A SPONGE?
Read morelifeascaty: i’m going over some of my scripts and i seem to use a pre-lap at least once per script and i’m starting to wonder if there’s a rule about how often you should do this because i feel i am doing it too much @writerlyn or anyone else have a view? I like pre-lap,…
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