About: Scott W. Smith
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- Frances Marion on ‘One of the Very First Things Any Fiction Writer Must Learn’ #screenwriting advice from her 1937… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 days ago
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- How Much Do Screenwriters Make?
- Frances Marion on Writing and Living a Rich and Varied Life
- The Perfect Logline
- The Four Functions of Dialogue (Tip #45)
- The Devil Speech by James L. Brooks
- Why Movie Stars Have Big Heads
- Frances Marion on ‘One of the Very First Things Any Fiction Writer Must Learn’
- Paddy Chayefsky Interview
- Shooting "Chinatown"
- Average Length of a Movie Scene (tip #21)
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- Frances Marion on Writing and Living a Rich and Varied Life
- Frances Marion on ‘One of the Very First Things Any Fiction Writer Must Learn’
- Frances Marion on Movie Endings
- Frances Marion on Plot (Part 4— with an assist from Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Ron Livingston, and Bryan Cranston)
- Frances Marion on Plot (Part 3)
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Screenwriting from Iowa- Frances Marion on Writing and Living a Rich and Varied LifeTo paraphrase Carlyle, ‘A writer who could only sit in a chair and write stories would never write any stories worth the reading.’ Your story material naturally will be influenced in quality and quantity by the richness of your own life experience; by your own loving, fearing, suffering, struggling, and achieving. Therefore, as a writer, […]Scott W. Smith
- Frances Marion on Writing and Living a Rich and Varied Life
