Archive for November, 2014

Screenwriting Course #139: A Personal Story

A PERSONAL STORY Hello, Screenwriters.  As you know I attempt to provide information on this blog you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  Most of the time, the best lessons come from personal experience. I have one I thought I’d share with you.  I went to UCLA to […]

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Screenwriting Course #138: Are You Delivering The Goods

Hello, everyone. As you all know, I’m all about giving you tools that you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting class.  This certainly fits that bill.  I hope this it’s not too far off the mark of what we’ve been discussing but I thought this was so important we […]

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Screenwriting Course #137: More On Writing Great Scenes

Hello, everyone. As you know, my mission to provide information you wouldn’t ordinarily get in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting course.  This certainly fits that bill. Here is the last part of the Inglourious Basterds scene. Colonel Landa has now discovered the Jews are indeed hiding under the floorboards. He’s broken the […]

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Screenwriting Course #136: Writing Great Scenes

Okay, everyone. Here is another example of very precise instruction you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop — the second part of our scene from Inglourious Basterds. Colonel Landa has been toying with the French farmer, looking for the Dreyfus family, Jews hiding from the Nazis. We know […]

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