mygayshoes: Today I saw a dude try to physically remove a teenage girl from the disabled seating on the train, complaining about his weak ankles and hypertension and how pathetic and discourteous youth were. She literally threw her prosthetic leg at him. I love this. It’s conflict, it’s visual, it reveals character in two directions….
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Tone + Genre + Story + Universal Message = Target Audience The first thing you decide is what story you want to tell, and the second thing to decide is who you want to tell it to. Really, it will make so many of your choices so much simpler. You can’t please everyone, but you…
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More Pilots! lifeascaty: I love pilots. Good pilots & bad pilots, old pilots & new pilots. Just pilots. Here are 50 more for you to get your teeth into. (The original 70 pilot post can be found here.) 90210 (2008) Almost Human (2013) About a Boy (2013) Archer (2010) Arrested Development (2003)
Read morebluestockingfilmseries: This is what a complex female protagonist looks like! Our t-shirts are a soft cotton-poly blend, sourced ethically (Made in the USA), and hand silkscreened in Maine. Get one for your very own! My Mom found out I got her one for Mother’s Day. My mom reads my blog. But she went nuts for…
Read moreSeriously. Use one of those eighteen mostly empty notebooks you own. Write it all down. You will never remember it.
Read moreglamourweaver: Yvette Nicole Brown wrote this joke based on actual experience with directors who didn’t want to use the word “sassy” but 100% wanted her to play it sassier. How to set up a joke. One of my favorite lines of all time. You can see that comedy is not about the writer showing that…
Read moreAfter seeing your comments about InkTip, I’m curious if you think the same thing about The Black List’s website/script hosting service? I’m on the fence about it, myself. They seem to have some credibility, as an offshoot of The Black List’s annual “popular screenplays” list, and they have some high level partnerships. On the other hand, I know a couple shitty writers (repped) who have hosted their scripts on the site and ended up with high rankings or on the “Top Scripts” page. Thoughts?
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…
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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.
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