About: Scott W. Smith
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Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places
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- "You need to have a lot of perseverance and persistence in order to get things through…" Oscar-nom #Screenwriter wp.me/paP6U-9Dx 3 days ago
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- How Much Do Screenwriters Make?
- Lunchtime Writing & The Pulitzer Prize
- Average Length of a Movie Scene (tip #21)
- Irony in Movies (Tip #79)
- 10 Cinematography Tips (Roger Deakins)
- "A story that had to be told..."
- The Four Functions of Dialogue (Tip #45)
- Movie Cloning (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
- Why Movie Stars Have Big Heads
- Emotional Structure (Part 3)
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Screenwriting from Iowa- Lunchtime Writing & The Pulitzer Prize“I wrote my first play at an advertising agency in Chicago during lunch hours around 1957. Actually, when I went to Chicago I thought I’d be a commercial artist…until I saw what commercial art was. Then I decided I’d be a painter. I did about ten paintings. They were terrible. At the same time, I […]Scott W. Smith
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