Archive for May, 2015

Screenwriting Course #160: Do You Have 5 or 6 Great Moments in Your Screenplay?

Hello, everyone. As you know my mission statement is provide information you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  This certainly fits that bill. We’re going to take a little break from talking about writing great scenes to address an area I regularly see being overlooked in the private […]

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Screenwriting Course #159: The Great Law of Change

Hello, everyone. As you know the guiding principle of these posts is to provide information you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting course. This post certainly fits that bill. I just read a quote recently from Edmund Burke, the great statesman, which got me thinking about screenwriting. This is […]

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Screenwriting Course #158: (500) Days of Summer

Hello, everyone. As you all know, my only purpose in this blog is to provide information you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting course or screenwriting workshop. I hope I’ve acclmplished that purpose with these posts. For now, let’s look at one of my favorite movies – (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, written […]

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Screenwriting Course #157: Reaching For Greatness

Hello, everyone. As you well know, my mission is to offer information that you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting course, or screenwriting workshop. Well, it’s come that time that I need to reprimand most of you – for very few members of this group are really doing their job. My job […]

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Screenwriting Course #156: Writing Action Scenes

Hello, screenwriters. As you are all aware, my purpose in this blog is to provide detailed information you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting class.  This certainly fits that bill. So here is our last part of the flashback sequence where Salt hears what Zykov has to reveal about […]

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