castingcallwoe: The joy of being an actress and seeing the incredible range of roles on offer to you…
Read moreannerocious: catagator: sea-hag: Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick-it, breakfast style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like the Lilith Fair. Minus the angst. Plus frittatas. Happy Galentine’s Day to the ladies who make my life so rich. Happy Galentine’s Day…
Read moreHow to Cut Dialogue
annerocious: It is perfectly reasonable to have a damn talky first draft. You don’t know everything about your story or your characters yet, but you’re sketching in scenes in the order and direction of the plot. So you take a shortcut and have your characters sit down and talk about what you know is important…
Read morethewritingcafe: This writing advice was so helpful that it deserved its own picture heading. A huge part of writing is cause and effect, but when worrying about conflict, resolution, characters, the plot as a whole, and more, we tend to forget about this and our stories end up being described as “this happens and then this…
Read moreWhat is an escalation and why is it important?
annerocious: Escalations are developments in the script that make things scarier and more difficult for the protagonist. An “Oh, shit.” moment. It is important because it is the only thing that sustains interest in the story. Escalations give second acts form and momentum. Escalations aren’t near misses. They happen, and they become the protagonist’s immediate…
Read moreannerocious: filmblrfest: The First Annual Filmblr Fest ! Filmblr Fest? You heard right! A Tumblr-based film festival for the filmmaking community. Our mission is to create a platform for Tumblr filmmakers to show off their work while reinforcing the growing sense of community. How does it work? Submissions will be in short film, web series…
Read moreWhen Character Names Attack
annerocious:
Read more*in a movie*
main guy: hey, how are you? his dream girl: i’m a plot device, so it doesn’t really matter, how are you? main guy: *monologues*
Read moreannerocious: Here is that awesome plot you were looking for.
Read moreSo I Read 600+ Scripts And…
annerocious: You may not have noticed that the Banal Probe has been trickling in lately, but it’s because I read too many scripts in a row. Which is what I do, so there was money, but at what price? It’s not that the scripts are bad, or that the writing is bad. It all boils…
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