mikerugnetta: liartownusa: Awful Typography Destroys Suspension of Disbelief Me, every time.

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All 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…

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HeroesandHeartbreakers 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…

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annerocious: 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….

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That 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!’”…

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writeascreenplay: 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

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Our 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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