Category: Screenwriting
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Reading and Writing for the Web 7/22
Every day I scour the web for articles on reading and writing to further my education about my craft and try to share the best of those articles with you here. Today, I thought I’d focus on reading. One of the most common, reiterated pieces of advice for writers of…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/21
Has this ever happened to you? Today I had as many as 16 tabs open on my computer at the same time in my web browser, and, naturally, the browser crashed. Fortunately, when you reopen the browser there’s a neat little tool called Recent Tabs that, once you click on…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/20
I tried to keep the distractions to a minimum today and limit my time online so that I could do a little bit of writing. Couple of things did catch my eye and they are listed below for those interested in a bit of writerly advice or an interesting read:…
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Join the ranks: Nashville Film Fest looking for a few good readers
Since it’s Giving Tuesday, I thought I should share a unique way for you to give back: You can be a volunteer reader for the Nashville Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition. This is my second year as a reader for the competition, wherein I get to read dozens of scripts and…
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Writing groups great way to get back in the groove
Anyone who has tried this thing called writing knows how easy it is to fall out of the habit. So, I’m particularly thankful that here in Nashville there is such a vibrant writing community. The Nashville Writers Meetup offers a number of groups for writers of all levels to participate in each…
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Writers: You don’t have to do this … but you probably should
It’s a simple enough line of dialogue: “You don’t have to do this.” But it’s also one of the most common and, perhaps, overused lines of dialogue in today’s movies and TV shows as well. Listen for it, and you will hear it uttered more often than not. The line…
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Magnificent movie dialogue to remember
As a practicing screenwriter, I’ve found myself paying a lot more attention to dialogue that sparkles in TV and movies. I have to say that the following exchange of dialogue from Maleficent is one of the most chillingly effective exchanges among all the big movies released so far this year: Princess…
Story By G. Robert Frazier 