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Learning to be “Good in a Room” (part 1)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, Screenwriting Biz, screenwriting, tagged Alec Badwin, Blake Snyder, Bruckheimer Films, Carnegie Mellon, David Mamet, Des Moines, Diablo Cody, entertainment, Glengarry Glen Ross, Good in a room, Hollywood, Iowa Save the Cat, Juno, LA, Legally Blonde, MGM, movies, Pittsburgh, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, screenwriting from iowa, STEPHANIE PALMER on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Starting Your Screenplay (tip #6)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman, David Mamet, Edward Dmytryk, entertainment, Inciting Incident, Juno, movies, Paddy Chayefsky, protagonist, Rain Man, Ron Bass, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, screenwriting tips, Skip Press, Syd Field, The Caine Mutiny, writing on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“My psychological state when I start a screenplay is always the same. It’s a mix of fear, anxiety and insecurity.”
Akiva Goldsman, Oscar winner (A Beautiful Mind)
“Who is your hero, what does [...]
Screenwriting & Structure (tip #5)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged Alien, Countercultural, Dan O'Bannon, David Mamet, Goddard, LaBron James, Lance Armstrong, Lew Hunter, Magnolia, Memento, movies, Picasso, Pulp Fiction, Robert Frost, Robert McKee, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, screenwritingPulp Fiction, Syd Field, Tiger Woods, writing on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Structure is the most important element in the screenplay. It is the force that holds everything together.” Syd Field
Today is the first day of spring and that signals a change. (Not so much here in Iowa, because the forecast is we’ll get 2-6 inches of snow tomorrow.)
If you’ve been thinking about writing a [...]
Where Do Ideas Come From? (A+B=C)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, tagged 60 Minutes, Andy Griffith, Ansel Adams, Apple, art, Arthur Koestler, Bob Dylan, Cameron Crowe, Comedian, Creativity, Des Moines, Diablo Cody, Dummies Books, Ed Harris, Einstein, filmmaking, Gary Kelley, Goethe, Hemingway, How to Get ideas, How to write a screenplay in 20 days, Jack Foster, Jack Johnson, Jack London, James Webb Young, Jerry Maguire, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Buffett, Julia Cameron, Juno, Katie Couric, Linus Pauling, Orlando, painting, Paul Schrader, Peter Hedges, Pieces of April, Pixar, Reece’s Peanut Butter, Robert Frost, Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, Rolling Stone, Scott W. Smith, Stallone, Stephen King, Steven Jobs, Steven Spielberg, The Artisit's Way, Thomas Edison, Tom Cruise, Vicki King, Windsurfing, Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2008 | 10 Comments »
“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.” Grant Wood (Iowa painter, American Gothic)
“The way to have [...]
Can Screenwriting Be Taught?
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, tagged A Raisin in the Sun, Bernard Malamud, Daddy Day Care, entertainment, film, Geoff Rodkey, Goethe, Iowa Writers' Workshop, John Steinbeck, Lake Howell High School, Lawrence Kasden, Lew Hunter, Lorraine Hansberry, Natalie Goldberg, Neil Simon, Quentin Tarantino, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Scott Smith, screenwriting, Screenwriting Iowa, Sean Combs, Sidney Poitier, teaching, The Natural, UCLA, University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“I wrote screenplays as a way to get into production. I wrote six or seven before I sold one.”
Lawrence Kasden
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Everything I Learned in Film School (tip #1)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged AFI, Alfred Uhry, Conflict, CS Lewis, Deana Carter, Driving Miss Daisy, Edward Albee, Film School, Flannery O'Connor, Georgia, Jaws, Jimmy Buffett, Lew Hunter, Martin Luther King, Mike Tyson, movies, Orson Welles, Richard Walter, Rocky, Sam Shepard on February 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here’s everything I learned in film school (and in screenwriting workshops and books)…boiled down to one word. But before I get to that one word let me say that I went to film school so long ago that Orson Welles was in my class. Okay, not that long ago, but back when films schools only [...]
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