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February 1, 2023 Casey Neistat’s YouTube Success in Just One Word
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January 31, 2023 ‘Everything needs to be edited…’—Jerry Seinfeld
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January 30, 2023 Celebrating 15 Years of Writing the ‘Screenwriting from Iowa… and Other Unlikely Place’ Blog By Boiling the Essence of Screenwriting—Maybe Life—Down to Just 15 Words
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January 20, 2023 Postcard #225 (El Raton Theatre in New Mexico)
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January 9, 2023 Lessons Learned from Pelé, Barbara Walters, and the Dumbest Thing I Ever Did on a Production
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January 1, 2023 Postcards #224 (Jimmy Buffett, 1980 Tampa Concert)
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December 30, 2022 Simply Spielberg
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December 25, 2022 Merry Christmas 2022
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December 23, 2022 Postcard #223 (The Broadmoor—Colorado Springs)
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December 17, 2022 Postcard #222 (Golden, Colorado)
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Screenwriting from Iowa
- Casey Neistat’s YouTube Success in Just One WordToday is February 1, 2023 and I’m going to start a string of post on YouTubing. Where does one start? Hard to go wrong with YouTuber and filmmaker Casey Neistat. Last May I took his online class on YouTube and throughly enjoyed it. I produced two videos in a few weeks. (I haven’t posted them […]Scott W. Smith
- Casey Neistat’s YouTube Success in Just One Word
Blogroll—Favorite Posts from Others
- ASPIRING TO ACT, WRITE, DIRECT—TomCruise.com
- BURN IT DOWN—John August
- CASE STUDIES IN FILM EDITING—Oliver Peters
- DAVID MAMET'S MEMO— Movieline
- EVERY SALE HAS A STORY—Blake Snyder
- FILM FINACE OVERWHELM—Stacy Parks
- IT'S THE CONCEPT STUPID—Max Adams
- LISTEN TO A MOVIE—Scott Myers
- MISHA GREEN INTERVIEW—Scriptshadow
- QUERY LETTER SAMPLE — Michele Wallerstein
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK—Scriptsnotes, Ep 73:
- THE 'RAIDERS' STORY CONFERENCE—Mystery Man on Film
- THE "A" LIST—Christopher Lockhart
- THE SCREENWRITER'S GUIDE TO MOVIE VILLAINS—Screenwriting Spark
- THE TOTAL FILM-MAKER BY JERRY LEWIS—Cinephilla and Beyond
- VINCENT LAFORET—chasejarvisLIVE