Archive for August, 2013

Screenwriting Course #77: Body Heat

Hello, everyone. Another week-end and another opportunity to discuss great characters and what makes them so. As you all know by now, I like to provide information that you don’t normally receive in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting course. As I have repeatedly said, anyone who is new or relatively new to […]

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Screenwriting Course #76: The Complexity of Great Characters

Hello, everyone.  As you know I love to provide tips and comments that you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  This is very much apropos to what I’m going to talk about now…  The complexity and contradictions in all great characters. As a great South African novelist, Alan […]

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Screenwriting Course #75: Giving Pat Psychological Answers To A Protagonist’s Character

Hello, everyone.  As you all know,  I love to delve into issues that aren’t normally covered in your typical screenwriting workshop, screenwriting class or screenwriting course.  Voila.  Here is another example of that. It’s very exciting as we are now getting close to having 3,400 screenwriters on this group. We are growing by leaps and […]

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Screenwriting Course #74: Working Smart As Well As Working Hard

Hello, everyone.  As you all know, I’m all about providing information that you don’t normally hear in a screenwriting course, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting class.  This is definitely true of what I want to talk about today. For those of you who can’t make it to my screenwriting lecture today at the Alameda Writers Group […]

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