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Script Symbology: Sea of Zombies – Big Budget Movies 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By John Fraim Hollywood seems to have placed a heavy bet on the table with its mega-budget zombie, vampire and super-hero comic-book films in the summer of 2013. Somewhere north of a billion dollars w...
Monday Morning Editor Picks: Tools to Motivate & Get You Writing a Screenplay 26 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
I don’t know about you, but I loathe starting a new writing project. I find any reason to procrastinate, especially using my job as Script’s Editor to give me “excuses” as to why I’m too busy to write...
Screenwriter Interview: Kyle Killen Writes ‘Scenic Route’ Starring Josh Duhamel 26 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
By Ryan Kelley Scenic Route, staring Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler, is currently showing in theatres. The script, written by Kyle Killen, is both a story of survival and an examination of friendship an...
Inner Drives: What’s My Character Motivation – “Sex, Fear, and Money” 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
By Pamela Jaye Smith [Based on Pamela's book, INNER DRIVES: Create Characters Using the 8 Centers of Motivation (chakras) published by Michael Wiese Prods and available at the Writers Store.] ***** Wa...
Behind the Lines with DR: Turning Japanese – Attaching a Director, Part 4 26 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
Behind the Lines with DR: Turning Japanese – Attaching a Director, Part 1 Behind the Lines with DR: Turning Japanese – Attaching a Director, Part 2 Behind the Lines with DR: Turning Japanese – Attachi...
TV Writer Podcast 081 – Jeffrey Lieber (Lost, Tuck Everlasting, Necessary Roughness) 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Co-creator of Lost… creator of Miami Medical… writer of Tuck Everlasting… showrunner of Necessary Roughness… what more do we need to say? You’re sure to love this week’s interview with feature & TV wr...
Indievelopment: Writer for Hire – When the Honeymoon Ends 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
The saddest words of tongue or pen Perhaps are these: “What might have been.” The sweetest words we know, by heck, Are simply these: “Enclosed, find cheque.” Not everything works out. While quite prob...
Writers on the Web: Mapping Your Destination and Branding a Web Series Before You Begin 23 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
CHARTING YOUR OWN COURSE My co-producer and I went to an amazing new media marketing and producing conference this past weekend with superstar content creator Issa Rae and her creative team. We learn...
Balls of Steel: Liar, Liar, Career on Fire 23 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am
Character matters. I’m not talking about the characters you create for your stories. I mean your character. I’ve written about it before in Balls of Steel: Your Character, Your Career, but this time I...
Why Spec Scripts Fail: Backstory Thru Subtext, Part 2 22 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
Last time in, Part 1, we discussed how the environment creates behavior that leads to the dialogue a character uses to subtly reveal his or her backstory. I suggested that you rewrite the example scen...
