Archive for January, 2017

Screenwriting Course #197: A Little Pep Talk

Hello, everyone. As you all know I try and present material that you don’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop. Today, let’s take a minute and think about the value of looking at these scenes every week from great screenwriters, who are writing films for today’s marketplace. Not only […]

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Screenwriting Course #196: Creating A Great Read

Hello, everyone. I can’t emphasize enough how important the read is. I work relentlessly with the writers in my screenwriting workshops on their story structure, their characters and the protagonist’s character arcs and of course on the dialogue and scene construction. But when we get down to the 3rd or 4th draft – I emphasize […]

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