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000 leagues under the sea

  • Why Do You Write?

1 2 3 4

  • Kaleidoscopic Feist

2008

  • Oy Vey!

4 Magic Questions

  • (no title)
  • FREE Screenwriting Telephone Seminar Tonight!

4mqs

  • What Is The Answer To Your Movie’s Questions?

5 o'clock bar pub

  • It’s 5PM do you know where your characters are?

a walk on the moon

  • Happy Earth Day!

Abraham

  • Contributing To Your Own Writing Process
  • Don’t rebel, sell!

Abraham Hicks

  • Contributing To Your Own Writing Process
  • Don’t rebel, sell!

academy awards avatar the hurt locker up in the air a serious man

  • Oscar Nominations Announced

act 1

  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic
  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act
  • The Three-Act Structure
  • VIDEO: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

act 2

  • Focus, Focus! Focusing Will Help Your Writing…
  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Cross the Act II Threshold
  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic
  • The Three-Act Structure
  • VIDEO: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

act 2 aristotle poetics

  • Act II Webinar
  • What Is Your Character’s Nightmare?

act 3

  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic
  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act
  • The Three-Act Structure
  • VIDEO: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

act 3 four magic questions aristotle

  • Audition by Michael Shurtleff
  • How To Write Your Best Ending Ever (Video)

action

  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part one): Should Your Idea Be a Screenplay?

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  • Know Your Type

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  • Happy Hanukkah!

adaptation

  • How to Adapt
  • The Secret to Good Dialogue

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  • True Stories

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  • Airport Security
  • Shakes On A Plane

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  • Passenger Poll

al pacino

  • FREE Telephone Seminar TONIGHT!

alan ruck

  • Save Ferris!

albert brooks

  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”

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  • Marilyn on MP3

alien sigourney weaver poultry

  • I Feel Like Chicken Tonight

alvin

  • The Chipmunks do Star Wars

America

  • Go Miska! The Realization of a New Webseries.
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

american wedding

  • Adam Moser is GROOM OF THE YEAR
  • GROOM OF THE YEAR
  • GROOM OF THE YEAR – The Final Round
  • GROOM OF THE YEAR pt. 3

And Then Came Love

  • I Want To Kiss You!
  • Success stories are always inspiring.

andy garcia geena davis dustin hoffman robin williams jeff bridges

  • Writing The Last

anger

  • Dodge This!

april fool's day

  • SCRIPT TIP: Each of Your Main Characters Should Have a Secret

archetypes

  • From Concept to High Concept

aristotle

  • The Three-Act Structure

art institute

  • VENICE: Peggy Guggenheim Collection
  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • News From Chaotic Sequence
  • News From Chaotic Sequence

artie lange bob saget adam sandler chris farley

  • Half a great movie

artrage

  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part one): Should Your Idea Be a Screenplay?

as good as it gets

  • Combining Genres

assistant

  • Dodge This!
  • Golden Honey Bear Bakery

athlete

  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic

attorney

  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic

audience

  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part one): Should Your Idea Be a Screenplay?

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  • SCRIPT TIP: Start Your Year Off Write!

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  • Australian For Screenplay

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  • Kerry Got It Written!

author readings seminars

  • Swann’s Last Song

autism john stossel

  • Writing Has Set Her Free

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  • What Did You See?

Avignon

  • Capucine

awards nominees channel academy of television arts and sciences

  • Congratulations to all of the winners…
  • Golden Globes

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  • Free Sci Fi Downloads Available

awards nominees syfy channel academy of television arts and sciences

  • Congratulations to all of the Emmy Award nomineess…
  • Hugo Award Winners Announced
  • Thru The Wormhole

awards nywift new york women in film and television

  • 2009 Muse Awards
  • Mother of Hens

back to the future

  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”
  • Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

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  • Villains Are People Too…

bad movies

  • House of Wax? House of Awesome!
  • Michael Jackson Memorial at The Apollo Theater

bafta

  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

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  • What Is Your Villain’s Hidden Talent?

bakery

  • Golden Honey Bear Bakery

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  • Another Round!
  • Bar Theater!

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  • SCENE FOR A DAY: Batman (1989) by Sam Hamm & Warren Skaaren
  • SCENE FOR A DAY: Batman (1989) by Sam Hamm & Warren Skaaren

Baxter

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

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  • Independence Day
  • You Are What You Eat

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  • Imagine

bernard black

  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

Best Screenplay

  • Oy Vey!

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  • Author 101 Recap
  • ghostgirl: Homecoming up for award
  • Never Give Up

bible

  • The Three-Act Structure

biggs

  • GROOM OF THE YEAR

bill murray chris elliott andie macdowell doyle

  • Happy Groundhog Day

bill murray michael douglas world politics

  • Mixing Genres

bill wilder

  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act

billy bob thornton

  • I Am Not An Animal (or an actor)!

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  • Man In The Mirror

bitch mean girls gary coleman

  • Little House On The Prairie

black books

  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

black comedy

  • Chris on Canadian Television!
  • Convergence
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

black forest

  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present

blade runner

  • Combining Genres

Blog

  • “21 Below” hits Amazon!
  • “God I love u and I need u.”
  • "21 Below" hits Amazon!
  • "God I love u and I need u."
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting-Create a Business Persona
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Be Prolific
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Consistency
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Learn to Pitch
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Luck
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Passion
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Plan Your Career
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Self-Confidence
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Understanding Marketing Skills
  • 10 Ingredients for Successful Screenwriting: Your Portfolio
  • 10 Tips for Copyrighting Your Script
  • 2nd Edition of Friday Friday Funnys/How to Write Jokes
  • 3 Steps to Great Story Development
  • 3 Tips for Revising with Ease
  • 3 Ways to Get to Know Your Characters
  • 3nd Edition of Friday Friday Funnys/Prioritize for the Coming Year
  • 5 Easy Structure Tips
  • 5 Things to Consider When Developing or Finishing a Screenplay
  • 5 Tips for Better TV Story Creation
  • 6 Steps for Writing a Scene
  • A Better Way to Create an Ending
  • A Character’s Life Situation
  • A cool screenwriting tip…
  • A Cure for Writer’s Block
  • A Cure for Writers Block
  • A Day to Honor and Remember
  • A Father’s Influence
  • A Ferry Ride=An Idea/ Joke on a Stick #46
  • A fine line between drama and comedy
  • A Food Your Villain Hates
  • A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline
  • A Great Start to Fall
  • A Grunt’s Tale
  • A Helpful Little Link!
  • A Line Edit-Here’s How
  • A Memorial Day Memory: Al and The Cowboys
  • A Mother’s Day Exercise
  • A new story/next webinar/student successes
  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  • A Pigeon Named Boo
  • A Powerful Writing Tool and JOS 59
  • A Resolution for 2020 and YourFridayFunny.com
  • A Rewrite Recap
  • A Season of Faith and Hope/Your Friday Funnys #15
  • A Story Coming To Life
  • A Story Premise Question and Solution
  • A Tango for Louise
  • A Thanksgiving Exercise
  • A Thanksgiving Wish
  • A Valentine for You!
  • A very important assignment for this weekend!
  • A Visual Technique to Speed Up Your Writing/The Latest Friday Funnys!
  • A Writing Vacation
  • Acts of Kindness
  • Adam Nadler & Shoot George
  • Advice for Wannabe Writers
  • All We Really Want
  • An Amazing Week
  • An Exciting Week
  • An insightful look into the biz
  • An Interview, a Webinar and Introducing: The Word of the Day!
  • And the winner is…..
  • And The Winner is…You!
  • Another cool screenwriting tip!
  • Aspects of High Concept Screenwriting
  • Author 101 University
  • Back From Vacation, Back to Work
  • Bad days happen. Just gather yourself and start writing.
  • Be Happy! Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist
  • Be More Self-Confident–Fast
  • Beforeshadowing
  • Beginning Writers Beware: All Good Writing Is Rewriting
  • Best Way to Create Act 2, Part 2
  • Blake Snyder 1957-2009
  • Born on the 14th of February?
  • Building a Body….With Legs!
  • Busy Making Other Plans
  • Calm Your Anxiety/Your Friday Funnys #13
  • Celebrating Autumn with Dancing Outdoors – Volvo Tango
  • Change Your Writing and Your Life-FREE Webinar
  • Childhood lessons
  • Chill Out and Write!
  • Christmas Greetings and Gifts for You!
  • Classes, The Scripter’s Writing Room, Spooky and More!
  • Classic stories
  • Clean Up for Fall
  • Closing in on The End of My Book…
  • COL-LAB-O-RATE GOOD TIMES, C’MON!
  • Comedy Clip and the Friday Funnies!
  • Comedy Writing Tips
  • Completed Screenplays-In Ten Weeks!
  • Confidence is Crucial
  • CONGRATS to My Friend, Ken! “Hysteria” Is a Smart and Riotous Comedy
  • Connect With Your Characters
  • Connecting to Opportunities: InkTip: Scripts Wanted
  • Consulting, Free Webinar and Joke on a Stick
  • Costumes and Characters
  • Create a Compelling Villain Webinar Review/ New webinar: Hierarchy of Villains This Wednesday
  • Create a Memorable TV Series
  • Create Conflict in Your Scenes
  • Create Your Third Act Easily
  • Creating Rich Characters
  • Creating Rich Characters: 2 Tips and Tricks That Successful Screenwriters Use
  • Critique Your Scenes
  • Cure Three Writing Mistakes/ Free Webinar Part 4
  • Curing Your Holiday Hangover
  • Dance
  • Determine Your Format First
  • Develop the Plot: Know What Your Characters Want
  • Discover the Joy in “Normal”
  • Discover Your Characters Secrets/Work and Play Better/ WOTD
  • Discovering a Different Perspective
  • Do Your Characters’ Values Have to be Yours?
  • Doing Good is Good
  • Doing the right thing is it’s own reward. Really.
  • Don’t Count 0n Anything – Steve Jobs Didn’t
  • Don’t get it right…
  • Don’t Let Award Shows Get You Down
  • Don’t Wait – On Dying Well
  • Don’t Defend Bad Choices
  • Easter and Passover Greetings
  • Eavesdrop and Improve Dialog
  • Embrace Uniqueness
  • Emotional Honesty and Writing
  • End Negative Self-Talk and Be More Productive
  • Expect a Miracle Today
  • F is for Halloween
  • Face The Music and Dance/ WOTD Story Creation Exercise
  • Fall Classes at the Horowitz Center for Screenwriting
  • Feedback from 4MQS
  • Feeling is the Secret
  • Fiction Writers Welcome at Author101University
  • Final Thoughts for 2017
  • Find your next GREAT story idea!
  • Find your theme…increase your motivation.
  • Finding Words
  • Finish Your Script with The Great Fredini
  • First Draft Expectations and Happy Thanksgiving
  • First Tango in Paris
  • Food for Thought
  • Food Shopping with Your Villain
  • For the love of writing
  • For Your Writer’s Toolbox…Tips, Practice, and the WOTD
  • Four Magic Questions and Your Life
  • Freedom, independence and your characters
  • From Feature to TV Series-Adaptation Tips
  • From the Pandemic Comes Beautiful Stories
  • Frustration and Your Characters
  • Generating Story Ideas/Webinar Recap/JOS 61
  • Get Control of Your Creativity
  • Get Into A Good Mood and Write A Better Life/JOS#57
  • Get rid of self-doubt!
  • Get Your Next Story Idea From Music
  • Get Your Screenplay Started/Friday Funny Issue #9
  • Getting to Know Your Villain
  • Getting to Know Your Villain- The Kiss of Death
  • Getting to Know Your Villain-Sleeping with the Enemy
  • Getting to Know Your Villain-The Parent Trap
  • Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  • Go Deeper Into Your Character With Comedy
  • Goals vs. Resolutions
  • Good News/Bad News
  • Gratitude/ JOS #47/Webinar Invite Coming Soon!
  • Great Expectations
  • Great Moments
  • Great Stories are Sprouting up Like Spring Flowers!
  • Great Structure…Every Time!/ Free Webinar Part 3
  • Great Writing Means Re-Writing/Joke on a Stick 42
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • Halloween Reflections
  • Halloween: Characters, Insights and Development
  • Happy Holidays to all!
  • Happy Holidays/Rest and Reflect/ Next writers room
  • Happy Inauguration Day!
  • Happy Mother’s Day
  • Happy New Year
  • Happy New Year and Winning an Emmy
  • Happy New Year!
  • Happy New Year/Dialog Webinar Recap
  • Happy New Year?
  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day
  • Happy Thanksgiving
  • Happy Thanksgiving and The Friday Funnies!
  • Happy Valentine’s Day!/FridayFunny Issue #7
  • Have No Fear-Explore the Alternatives!
  • Hell/Paradise–Don’t overedit!
  • Heroes and Villains: It’s all in the Family
  • Hey, I can do that!
  • High Stakes for Your Characters
  • Hit The Target
  • Holidays and Writing Inspiration
  • Hope and Heroism
  • Hope, Optimism, and a Day of Remembrance/New Webinar!
  • How a Shift in Perspective Can Change Your Conference Experience
  • How a Single Word Can Hoist Your Writing!
  • How Are Screenplays and Teleplays Different?
  • How do you really sell your screenplay?
  • How Does Your Villain Get Dressed?
  • How I Use Real Life to Inspire My Writing
  • How Should the Story End?
  • How to Build a Better Villain
  • How To Complete Your Finished Screenplay/Scripter’s Writing Room
  • How to Control Your Reader’s Experience
  • How To Cure New Year’s Eve Blues
  • How to Cure Your Character’s Hangover
  • How to Develop Your Story Fast: Tips from My Recent Writer’s Retreat in Italy
  • How to Easily Bring Your Characters to Life
  • How to Find the Concept for your Screenplay, TV Pilot or Novel
  • How to Find Your Character’s Voice
  • How to Find Your Character’s Voice
  • How to Get More Money Fast
  • How to Get Your Screenplay Made Faster
  • How to Get Your Screenplay Started
  • How to Get Your Screenplay Started-Week 2
  • How to Improve Your Story by Understanding Your Main Character’s Spiritual Beliefs
  • How to Mix Business with Fiction
  • How to Motivate Yourself to Start Writing
  • How To Re-Examine Your Main Character
  • How to Release Grief Through Celebration
  • How to Stay in a Good Mood When You Are Working on a Dark Story
  • How to Stay on Track
  • How To Succeed In Hollywood
  • How to Take Stock of Your Year and Have Fun Doing It
  • How to Turn a Treatment into an Outline
  • How to Use a Personal Trauma to Write and Feel Better
  • How to Use Character to Create Conflict
  • How to Use the Story of Abraham and Isaac to Expand Your Writing Ability
  • How to Win Screenplay Contests
  • How to worry at the right time
  • How to Write a Better Scene Instantly
  • How to Write a New Script Better
  • How To Write A Shared Back Story
  • How to Write a Treatment for a Personal Story
  • How To Write Better Comedies
  • How To Write Better Dialogue
  • How to Write the Best Second Act Ever
  • How Would Your Character Quit?
  • How You Can Use Religious Experiences to Improve Your Writing
  • I feel like…dancing!
  • I love you, Mom
  • If your main character were an actor and could pick the role of a lifetime, what would it be?
  • In 2023…
  • In Five Years, Will This Matter?
  • In the summertime…
  • Insider Tips from NYTVF
  • Insights into Character Development
  • Inspiration Everywhere
  • Inspiration for Your Writing Versus Imitation
  • Interlopers Run Amok
  • Interrupted Announcer?
  • Interview Your Villain
  • Is it Better to Have Loved and Lost Than Never to Have Loved at All?
  • Is It Good Enough?
  • Is rewriting even necessary?
  • It is what it is
  • It Takes a Village
  • It’s All About the Writing
  • It’s All About You
  • It’s Good To Be Back
  • It’s Good To Have Friends
  • It’s Summer! Time for Sun, Fun and Writing
  • Joke of the Week and My NYU Class
  • July Script Tip
  • Just Ask!/Free Webinar/JOS #58
  • Just Getting Started on Your Script? 3 Great Tips
  • Kameron Got It Written!
  • Killadelphia
  • Learn, grow and create in 2023
  • Lesson Learned
  • Lessons from Hawking
  • Lessons Learned from Children
  • Let’s Spur Each Other On!
  • Living the Writer’s Dream/How to Create New Stories About Coping With the Pandemic-Part 6
  • London Screenwriting Festival
  • Look within yourself and create and develop characters.
  • Looking Forward into 2020!
  • Love, Art and Politics
  • Make Them Fall in Love With Your Characters
  • Make your screenplay GREAT with one easy technique.💪
  • Mantak Chia
  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Writing Partners
  • Mastering the Rewrite
  • May The Fourth Be With You…
  • Meat my family
  • Memorial Day Memories
  • Memorial Day Tribute/ Free Webinar Part 2
  • Memorial Day-Honor, Remember and Write
  • Mistakes to Avoid
  • Momentum/Happy Hanukkah
  • Movie Magic
  • Musical Stunt Doubles
  • Musing on the Writer’s Life – Sleep
  • Musing on the Writer’s Life – Conferences
  • Musing on the Writer’s Life – Time
  • My Aunt Doris
  • My Comedy Debut, an Interview and The Friday Funnies
  • My Friend Lori Is Like a Timex Watch: She Never Stops Ticking.
  • My Mother was Amazing
  • My Mother Would Be Proud
  • My Mother’s Day Tribute
  • My Veterans Day Picks
  • My Veterans Day Picks
  • Nature+Art+Life=Great Writing
  • Need Inspiration?
  • New Opportunities – Big Vision Empty Wallet
  • New Stories Needed Now More Than Ever
  • New Webinar/Joke on a Stick 43
  • New Years Resolution/ Highlight of the year/ Adopt a cat?
  • New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
  • News From Chaotic Sequence
  • News From Chaotic Sequence
  • Noa & Order: Missing Zebra Book Unit
  • Noa & Order: Missing Zebra Book Unit
  • Nocturnal Agony complete!
  • Not All Women Want Kids – Why Is This News???
  • Observe, Listen and Write!/Enjoy The Friday Funnys!
  • Oh Pshaw! Writin’ Dialog Can Be Easy
  • On the Subject of Rewriting
  • One Man’s Trash
  • One of these words is not like the others…
  • One Writer’s Journey
  • Oscars Affirmation
  • Outline Tips!
  • Outlining versus writing? Do both!/ Deep dive webinar/JOS # 39
  • Overcoming Obstacles
  • Pas de don’t
  • Personal Diversity is Your Friend
  • Pitching Your Non-fiction Work – An Author101 University Perspective
  • Please Attend Art Show! Filmmaker & Artist Daria Sommers – Across Generations
  • Please Listen – Excerpt from Overheard Conversations
  • Premiere in NYC: “The One” – Congratulations Caytha Jentis!
  • Premise or Premise-Question?
  • Prepare for the Hard Work of Rewriting
  • Prisoners of our Own Device
  • Producer Bert Schneider dies at 78
  • R.I.P. Michael Philip Del Rio
  • Reading, writing, or therapy?/New Jokes!/ Webinar on Wednesday
  • Reframe Criticism
  • Relating to Mom
  • Remember To Celebrate our Heroes This Memorial Day
  • Remembering 9-11: My Friend and Amazing Yogi, Ravi Hari…
  • Remembering John Hughes
  • Remembering on Memorial Day
  • Renovate Your Writing Process
  • Rest, Heal…..then Write
  • Rewrite Tips, Webinars and Paradise….
  • Rewriting and Perseverance
  • Run the Race to Win!
  • Salute To The Troops
  • Sayings of the Jewish Buddhist,
  • Screenwriting Expo Semifinalists Announced
  • Script Tip June 2012
  • Script Tip: How Does Your Character Feel About Martin Luther King?
  • Script Tip: How to Make Your Climactic Sequence “Pop”
  • Script Tip: How to Market Your Screenplay: How to Be Your Own Agent Until You Get One.
  • Script Tip: New Year’s Resolutions for Your Main Character and You
  • Script Tip: Using the Weather to Improve Your Screenplay
  • Script Tip: What Does Your Main Character Want for Christmas or Hanukkah?
  • Script Workshop
  • ScriptDC was fantastic!
  • Scripted vs. Unscripted
  • Secrets of Success/ Joke on a Stick
  • Self-Criticize vs. Assess
  • Should Your Story Be a Novel or a Screenplay?
  • Simchat Torah: Rejoicing and Law
  • Sitcom Success: Revisions and Polish
  • Sitcom Success: Write Act II
  • Sitcom Success: Write Act III
  • Sitcom Success: Create Your Beat-by-Beat Outline
  • Sitcom Success: Create Your Synopsis
  • Sitcom Success: Find the Pilot Story
  • Sitcom Success: Find Your Premise
  • Sitcom Success: What Kind of Pilot Should You Write?
  • Sitcom Success: Write Act I
  • Snowed In
  • Spark Your Creativity
  • Spring Brings Forth Showers of Inspiration
  • Spring has sprung! Get Your TV Pilot Written in Six Weeks
  • Spring has Sprung: Get Busy Writing
  • Spring…and hope…is in the air!
  • Stop Self-Criticism
  • Structure Your Act 2 with Ease
  • Structure Your Screenplay
  • Structure Your Screenplay Easily
  • Stuck on a Plot Point?
  • Student in Time & Newsweek!
  • Student in Time & Newsweek!
  • Succeed in Your Writing and Your Life
  • Success in 10 Weeks
  • Sunrise Word of the Day
  • Take Responsibility: Change Your Life
  • Take The Two Week Challenge and join the next Webinar for Part 2
  • Taking a Busman’s Holiday this Labor Day?
  • Tennis Versus Football
  • The Benefits of a Collective Experience
  • The Christmas Eve Exercise
  • The Easy Way to Plot Your Screenplay /FridayFunny Issue #10
  • The Essence of Queens – My Awesome Neighbor Steve Gettinger
  • The final polish…
  • The Formative Event for Screenwriting and for Life
  • The Formative Event: Why Your Character (Or You) Is Who They (You) Are.
  • The Fourth of July
  • The Gift of Time/Your Friday Funnys #14
  • The homeless and Hollywood
  • The Importance of Finding the Mystery in Any Story
  • The internet has got a new idea.
  • The Language of Mad Men
  • The Matrix: Are We Awake or Dreaming?
  • The Play’s The Thing–Isn’t It?
  • The Power of “Bookending”/ Free Webinar at Commaful
  • The Power of Distraction
  • The Power of Positivity and More Learning with the WOTD
  • The Power of Reading Aloud
  • The Power of the Collective
  • The Power of Words to Heal
  • The Purpose of the Words You Write
  • The Return Of Skeeter
  • The Suddenness of Life
  • The Super Bowl and High Stakes
  • The Three Questions of Easy Scene Writing
  • The Very Best Way to Pitch: Bait the Hook to Suit the Fish
  • The Waco Kid
  • The waco kid
  • The Way You Wear Your Sombrero
  • The Writer’s Life – Expectation and Suffering Can End with One Simple Concept
  • The Writer’s Life: How to Get Your Story Fast Using the 4MQS
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  • The Writer’s Life: How I Rewrite II
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  • Thinking about Mom/Free Webinar 5/21/ Rewrite class openings
  • This Can Help You Focus
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  • Three Secrets of TV Pilot Writing
  • Three Ways to Write Great Characters
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  • Tips for Writing Great Dialogue/ JOS #45
  • To Tell The Truth
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  • Transcript of 10/28 Find Your Hook Webinar/ JOS #44
  • Trick for Improving Your Third Act
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  • Trick or Treat
  • Trusting Yourself Results in Productivity
  • Two Tips to Rewrite Your Script Fast
  • Use Halloween for Joy
  • Use Personal Experiences to Create Imaginary Ones
  • Use Storytelling to Create Depth and Subtext in Your Screenplay
  • Use Voice Over Work to Improve Your Dialog
  • Use your everyday experiences
  • Use Your Time Well/Laugh with Your Friday Funnys!
  • Using Current Events to Improve Your Screenplay
  • Using real events in your story…
  • Using the Bible as a Clue
  • Valentine’s Day-Going Deeper
  • Want to Win A Screenplay Contest?
  • We Say Goodbye to Screenwriting Master Syd Field
  • Webinar Re-Cap-Good Characters Can Be Villains and Obstacles/Joke On a Stick
  • Webinar Recap, New Learning Opportunities and JOS 65
  • Webinar recap/ Next week: Create Villains/JOS #33
  • Webinar Recap/JOS Edition 40
  • Webinar report/A simple way to create a character driven story
  • Webinar Takeaways/Joke on a Stick 49
  • Webinar/ JOS/ What are we willing to “die” for?
  • Well begun is half done.
  • What cheers me up on rainy days
  • What Color is Your Success?
  • What Defines You?
  • What happened was…
  • What I learned at ASJA Writers Conference 2014
  • What I Learned at the Spring 2014 Author101 University
  • What is the Perfect Sitcom Pilot?
  • What is your baby going to tell you?
  • What is your main character’s wedding dance?
  • What Makes You Cry?
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  • What Most Writers Need to do More of
  • What Was Your Juiciest Overheard Conversation?
  • What Will Your Characters Do To Get What They Want?
  • What Would Make Your Character Kill?
  • What would your character wish for?
  • What You Know Will Help Your Writing
  • What’s In A Name
  • What’s the goal of any scene?
  • When It’s Time to Market Your Script
  • Where do you start your screenplay?
  • Where were his balloons?
  • While we don’t necessarily agree with Gano, we sure appreciate his efforts to educate writers
  • Who Was Your Character’s Favorite Teacher?
  • Whose Story Is It?
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  • Why Do Villains Behave the Way The Do?
  • Why Do We Write, Really?
  • Why Go to Thrillerfest?
  • Why Writers Succeed
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  • Wild Weather, JOS 60, New Webinar!
  • Win the Story Structure Race with Ease
  • Word of the Day Redux and New Webinar Date!
  • Word of the Day Cheat Sheet
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  • Word of the Day Webinar 2!
  • Work and Pleasure
  • Working Villain First
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  • World Cup Of Sports Movies (Finals)
  • Worry Not! /FridayFunny Issue #11
  • Write a New Story of Your Success
  • Write What You Know
  • Write Who You Know/FridayFunny Issue #8
  • Write Your Award Winning Screenplay This Year
  • Write Your First Draft Right
  • Writer’s Day!
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  • Writing the Treatment, Part II
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  • Writing with a Partner
  • Writing…its a sophisticated dance.
  • Yom Kippur
  • Your Birthday/FridayFunnyIssue #6 /Come as my guest!
  • Your Genre Determines the Type of Villain You Need
  • Your Villain Drives the Story
  • Your Villain’s Earliest Memory
  • Your Villain’s House Burns Down
  • ‏Another New Year Resolution!‏

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  • GROOM OF THE YEAR PT. 2

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  • FINISH YOUR SCRIPT – Thursday class
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  • The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman

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  • Character IS Plot
  • Some Thoughts on Being an Author
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  • How To Know Which Story To Write

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  • Boys & Girls

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  • Behind Enemy Lines

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  • Kaleidoscopic Feist

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  • Baseball and Beat Sheets

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  • Pet Care

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  • How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks at The Writers Store
  • Screenwriting Expo 2009
  • You Have Less Than 24 Hours to Register For the Expo!

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  • FREE Screenwriting Telephone Seminar Tonight!
  • FREE Teleseminar TONIGHT!

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  • Steven & Chris & Zoe

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  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”

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  • How To Rewrite Quickly
  • Rewriting The Big Red Way

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  • Freedom Comes From Limitation

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  • Saints & Mentors
  • Saints & Mentors

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Success stories are always inspiring.

CBC Television

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  • Steven & Chris & Zoe

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  • Writing The New Romantic Comedy

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  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

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  • VIDEO: Marilyn Horowitz on… PLOT & CHARACTER

characters

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  • Here’s Your Sign

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  • Fidelity

chicago

  • The Chicago Stirring Project
  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

childhood

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  • The Ghost Writer
  • The Three-Act Structure

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic

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  • Falling For Grace Extended Thru April 1st
  • Late Night Gossip

Christianity

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Use Christmas Eve to Raise the Stakes of Your Screenplay

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  • The Secret to Good Dialogue

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  • The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting with Marilyn Horowitz

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  • Joe Gilford’s Story Rescue Seminar

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  • Online Coaching Session Tonight!
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classics

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  • Classic stories
  • Father Knows Best
  • Films with my father
  • How to Adapt

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  • Art To Finish

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  • Complaints & Grievances
  • Complaints & Grievances

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  • BuskerFest

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  • Considering Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson when writing your screenplay
  • Considering Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson when writing your screenplay

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  • Wake up and smell the coffee

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  • Product Placement

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • Vote for Circumstance!

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  • What Language Does Your Character Speak?

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  • Chris and (Tom)foolery at NBC

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  • Homes featured in films

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  • COMING SOON: Coney Island USA Spring Gala

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  • Can I Lick Your Face?

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Rewriting Hero Last

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  • Jeff York in Script Magazine

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  • SCRIPT TIP: Each of Your Main Characters Should Have a Secret

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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic “If”
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic "If"

consultant meeting workshop seminar

  • Script Consultations at Author 101

contacts

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contest

  • Adam Moser is GROOM OF THE YEAR
  • Dodge This!
  • GROOM OF THE YEAR – The Final Round

Coppola

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

copyright

  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.
  • Seigel on Legal

corps

  • When Is Your Screenplay a Movie?

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • House of Wax? House of Awesome!

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  • House of Wax? House of Awesome!

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  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.

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  • Happy Valentine’s Day

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  • Knock Knock…

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  • COMING SOON: Lioness

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  • Technology In Action Movies

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  • The New Romantic Comedy

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  • David & Goliath
  • David & Goliath

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to tweak your plot in one easy thought

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  • George Clooney’s Boyfriend

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  • Paul Shaffer on CNN.com

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  • Parenthood Reborn

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  • When Is Your Screenplay a Movie?

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  • Frank Stephens at Sneakerball

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  • Life and Death

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  • Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

depth

  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”

Devil's Night

  • Happy Halloween!

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  • The Secret to Good Dialogue
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • LadyLike

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  • How determined is your hero or heroine to succeed?

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  • Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

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  • Dodge This!

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  • Womans’ Best Friend

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  • Last Night

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  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.

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  • How To Use Your Personal Doubts to Create A Screenplay

Dracula

  • Happy Halloween!

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • The Three-Act Structure

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • Where Is The Camera When You Dream?

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  • Don’t rebel, sell!
  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic

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  • UNUSUALS.net
  • Vote or Drive!

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  • Whooshing

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  • Weekend Writing Tip

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  • Contributing To Your Own Writing Process

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  • Caleb’s Door available on DVD

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  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

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  • Save Ferris!

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  • Chipping Away At Rejection

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  • Lights Camera Literacy Film Festival

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  • Jeff Goldstein’s F#¢&!^@ Delicious Egg Cream
  • Jeff Goldstein’s F#¢&!^@ Delicious Egg Cream

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  • Middle School Movies

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  • Middle School Movies pt. 2

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • ToiletBirthdays.com

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  • Timeless Stories

Empire Strikes Back

  • 3 year old on Star Wars
  • FREE Screenwriting Teleseminar (STAR WARS)

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  • Writing The End First

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  • Dodge This!

environment

  • Chris on Canadian Television!

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  • Sesame Street

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Jack Hayes Pilates

extra bonus special class

  • Who Or What Would Your Character Die For? – BONUS Class

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  • Ben Stiller, Mickey Rooney and Twitter
  • Can I Lick Your Face?
  • I Recognize That Face(book)
  • Judging A (Face)book By Its Cover – Becca Johnson
  • Language Is Complicated – A Brief Defense of Twitter

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  • Life and Death

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part two): Re-imagining an Existing Myth or Fairytale

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  • Falling For Grace Extended Thru April 1st

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part three): Using Family History

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  • Films with my father

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  • Dodge This!
  • SCRIPT TIP: How to Develop a Biopic

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  • Golden Honey Bear Bakery

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  • A Passion for Fashion

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  • Classic stories
  • Rare Experiences

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  • Dodge This!

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  • Kaleidoscopic Feist

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  • Lioness at NYWIFT

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  • Homecoming!

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  • Caleb’s Door available at Amazon.com
  • Caleb’s Door available on DVD

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  • Toronto Film Festival Lineup Announced

film festivals

  • Best Feature Horror/Thriller
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  • Steven at The Austin Film Festival

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  • Screenwriting Class in Baltimore

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  • Golden Honey Bear Bakery
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • Maria Got It Written!

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  • Bob Got It Written!

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  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.
  • Congratulations…
  • Free Your Mind

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  • How Would Your Character Escape?

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  • VENICE: Harry’s Bar

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  • Casting Your Main Character

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  • Golden Globes

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • FREE Screenwriting Telephone Seminar Tonight!
  • What Is Your Character’s Nightmare?

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  • Short and Sweet

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  • An Interview, a Webinar and Introducing: The Word of the Day!
  • End of Summer
  • FREE Class & Consultation at www.FinalDraftScript.com
  • FREE Class & Consultation at www.FinalDraftScript.com
  • FREE Coaching Webinar Tonight
  • Is It Okay To Kill Babies?
  • Summer Screenwriting Class – 6 spots left!
  • Truly Free Film
  • Writing a Screenplay in 10 Weeks at NYU with Michael Zam

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  • Freelance Writing with Anne Wayman

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  • Capucine
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • World Cup Of Sports Movies (Winner): Hoosiers

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  • Language Is Complicated – A Brief Defense of Twitter

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  • Beach Blanket Character Work

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  • Law & Over
  • Law & Over

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  • How Would Your Character Escape?

genre

  • Combining Genres
  • How To Use The Four Magic Questions Of Screenwriting To Structure Your Genre Screenplay
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • Flip It!

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  • Oy Vey!

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  • Who Does Your Character Read?

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  • Up In The Air
  • What Is The Character’s Dream?

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  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (70 minutes)

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  • Heath Got It Written!

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  • The Second Theatrical Extravaganza – Part II!

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  • Changes

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  • Combining Genres

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  • Star Wars & Science

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  • Mickey Mayor?

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  • Become Your Own Development Executive
  • Shane Black Named Guest of Honor for 2009 Screenwriting Expo
  • The Great American PitchFest

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  • How Do You Measure Success?

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  • Steven & Chris & Zoe
  • Steven & Chris & Zoe
  • The Three-Act Structure

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  • Reduce, Reuse, Rite

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to tweak your plot in one easy thought

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  • GROOM OF THE YEAR pt. 3

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  • St. Patrick’s Day

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  • The Hurt Locker

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to tweak your plot in one easy thought

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  • Finding “New”
  • Finding "New"

Halloween

  • Choose The Costume That’s Right For You
  • Horror-witz!

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  • Video Games: Competition or Companion?

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  • What is your character’s weapon of choice?

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  • What is your main character’s relationship to the world around them?

harrison ford

  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • SCRIPT TIP: Each of Your Main Characters Should Have a Secret

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  • Harry Potter A Classic?

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  • 2008 Maui Writers Conference

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  • Support Local Film Festivals

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Jonathan Stark on RewBee’s World

hero

  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”
  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Rewriting Hero Last
  • VIDEO: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks
  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?
  • When Is Your Screenplay a Movie?
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • We’re A Lot Alike

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  • Finding Characters

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  • Meeting A Mentor

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  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”
  • When Is Your Screenplay a Movie?
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • From Concept to High Concept

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  • Danny Manus in NYC
  • High Concept – How to Create, Pitch & Sell To Hollywood
  • High Concept – How to Create, Pitch & Sell To Hollywood
  • The Great American PitchFest

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part three): Using Family History

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  • Kosher 4 Passover
  • The Cure For the Valentine’s Day Blues

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  • Writing The Holidays

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  • 2009 Screenwriting Expo – Early Registration Expires on July 31st!
  • The Three-Act Structure

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  • The Simpsons (Estonia Version)
  • What Does Your Character Really Want?

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  • The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

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  • Meet Cute

Horror

  • Caleb’s Door available on DVD
  • Horror-witz!
  • Screen Talk Radio
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • Horror House

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  • When Harry Met Sally – The Recut

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  • COMING SOON: Coney Island USA Spring Gala

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  • A story is a story is a story

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  • Happy Halloween!
  • How To Write A Better Script By Using “Memories”
  • How To Write A Better Script By Using "Memories"
  • Success stories are always inspiring.
  • VIDEO: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

Hubbard

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

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  • Mistaken Identity & Revelations
  • Mistaken Identity & Revelations

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • LadyLike

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  • For Real
  • Found In Time on IndieGoGo
  • IndieNights

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  • The Creative Business of Screenwriting

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  • Running Dialogue

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  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.

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  • Hiding Out

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  • From Concept to High Concept

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  • Babies

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  • Lioness at NYWIFT

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  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

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  • Why Is Your Character On The Roof?

Islam

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present

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  • Avatar Review (Part 1 & 2)
  • Avatar Review (Part 1 & 2)

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  • Coco On The Road?

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  • Seven Minutes of Jazz

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  • Lebowski in Love

Jew

  • Oy Vey!

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  • Kosher 4 Passover

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  • Gmar Chatimah Tova
  • Language
  • What Is The Prayer In Your Heart?

Jewno

  • Oy Vey!

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  • Cirque Jacqueline

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  • Politics As Usual

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  • VIDEO: Marilyn Horowitz on… Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Found Footage Festival Returns!

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  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act

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  • Writing Movies

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  • Clouds

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  • The Use Of Religion In Your Story

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  • Cowrite Revisited

Juno

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  • Michael Cera Movie

justin long

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  • ghostgirl on Audiobook

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  • How to Adapt

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  • Babies
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  • Story vs. Discussion

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  • Mermaid Parade at Coney Island

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  • What makes your character despair?

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  • Combining Genres

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  • I Know What Girls Like…

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  • 10 Surprising Movies Directed By Women

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  • Parenthood Reborn

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  • Summer Screenwriting Course

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  • Seigel on Legal

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part three): Using Family History

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levy

  • GROOM OF THE YEAR

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  • What Lies Beneath

library

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life

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lifetime

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lincoln

  • Writing the first draft of your screenplay

lioness

  • COMING SOON: Lioness

literature

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Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Find Your Setting

logical

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loglines

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  • Gilmore Girls: The Movie?

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present

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  • Dating & Marrying Your Stories
  • Dating & Marrying Your Stories

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Lucas

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose

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  • Crying Wife (Star Wars)

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  • VENICE: Doge’s Palace & Bridge of Sighs
  • VENICE: Doge’s Palace & Bridge of Sighs

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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic "If"

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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic "If"

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  • He’s Got A Gun!

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age
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  • Woody Allen Walking Tour

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mark twain

  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part four): Past & Present

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  • The Creative Business of Screenwriting

marketing

  • Writing the Treatment

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  • Which Story Should I Write?

married to the mob

  • Combining Genres

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  • I Have A Dream

marty mcfly

  • Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

maryland

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  • Choose The Costume That’s Right For You

Master Screenwriters

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matthew mcconaughey

  • How to Adapt

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  • Knock the Vote

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  • COMING SOON: Lioness

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  • SCRIPT TIP: How to tweak your plot in one easy thought

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  • Including Yourself In Your Writing

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  • Where’s The Dog?

method

  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic “If”
  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic "If"

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  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”
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  • Real and Unreal

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  • R.I.P. Fess Parker

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Mischief Night

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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Mushrooms

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  • $20 To Life

monica potter

  • Parenthood Reborn

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  • VENICE: Toy Story 3

mother

  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”

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  • Moving Pictures

motivation

  • Life and Death

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movie

  • Can you copyright an idea? The answer is no.
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  • Golden Honey Bear Bakery
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  • Become Your Own Development Executive

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  • Cooper Got It Written!

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  • The Movie Of Your Life

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  • Hollywood Script Express
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Movies

  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Debbie Moloney’s Guide To Moving

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  • VIDEO: Marilyn Horowitz on… Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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  • The Kid

musicals

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  • Adam Moser is GROOM OF THE YEAR
  • GROOM OF THE YEAR – The Final Round
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Mysteries

  • TweetAMovie

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  • Finding A MacGuffin

mythology

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose
  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part two): Re-imagining an Existing Myth or Fairytale

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  • Vote Early! Vote Often!

nature

  • White Flowers And Fewer Drafts

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  • The Jay Leno Show

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  • WorldCon 2009 Update

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  • Gaiman talking about writing with others…
  • Neil Gaiman at WorldCon

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  • GQ Men Of The Year

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  • How Would Your Character Escape?

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  • Genre Collage
  • One Man’s Trash pt. 2

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  • Melissa Rosenberg at MakingOf.com

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  • The One

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  • What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

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  • Get Started Right Away

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  • Congratulations…
  • Convergence
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  • The Four Magic Questions of Storytelling

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  • Falling For Grace – NYC and LA premieres

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  • Long Island International Film Expo

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  • Dodge This!
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News

  • MTV promotes new movie with social media

newsletter

  • Summer Screenwriter #1 – The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting

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  • Reading Between The Lines

nick prueher

  • Found Footage Festival Returns!

nightmare

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part three): Using Family History

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  • Is your character’s mama their “god?”

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  • Act & Fiction
  • Act & Fiction
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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part one): Should Your Idea Be a Screenplay?

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  • Here’s Your Sign

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  • What to Expect When You Are Applying

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  • The Importance Of Teachers

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  • ChatRoulette.com
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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part two): How to Create Action and Using the Magic “If”
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Oscars

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • What would a retrospective show of your character’s life include?

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  • Photo Transitions

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  • Combining Genres

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  • How To Write Your Movie Memoir

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  • Final Draft’s Take A Meeting
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  • Rye & Ginger – Another Round!
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  • Contributing To Your Own Writing Process
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  • The Sneakers by Santiago Steele

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  • Why Do You Write?

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  • What Is Your Character Passionate About?

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  • Annie Jennings Interview
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  • Play It Again Jam

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  • Location, Location, Location

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  • How To Write A Better Script By Using “Memories”
  • How To Write A Better Script By Using "Memories"

rejection

  • The Dylan Moran Guide to Dealing with Rejection!

religion

  • Exciting is hardly the word I would choose
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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • Favorite Son
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Return of the Jedi

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  • FREE Screenwriting Teleseminar (STAR WARS)

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Rewriting Hero Last

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  • What gift would your character give?

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  • Taking Risks

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  • MARILYN’S MAILBOX: Coming of Age

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  • WRITING THE SCREENPLAY (part three): Subtext

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  • What if your hero could travel back in time?

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Romantic Comedy

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  • WHERE TO FIND A STORY (part one): Genre
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  • Writing About Grief

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  • SCRIPT TIP: Writing a Better Third Act
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  • COMING SOON: The Red Bull Experiment

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  • World Cup Of Sports Movies (Quarterfinals)

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Star Wars

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stay tuned

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  • How To Write A Better Script By Using "Memories"

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  • Matt & Julia Got It Written!

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