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Daily Dialogue — May 1, 2019

Margaret: Oh, Oliver! You can’t open that! Oliver: Why not? Napoleon just didn’t live long enough. Margaret: But it could be vinegar. I…

I always tell my students that by the end of Act One, a script reader should know where the story…

Girl gets Guy. Girl loses Guy. Girl gets Guy back. We know that.

Weird, Peter. I just checked the link and it’s for Stan & Ollie. Try this URL:

sonyclassics.com/awards-information/2018–19/screenplays/stanandollie_screenplay.pdf

Character Type: Innocent

“Perhaps this is because their innocent view of the world is an ‘enchanted’ one, seeing beauty and wonder all around them. The journey puts…

Script Analysis: “Crazy Rich Asians” — Part 2: Plot

Read the script for the smash hit romantic comedy and analyze it this week.

How They Write a Script: Ted Tally (“The Silence of the Lambs”)

Ted Tally is yet another screenwriter who started out as a playwright. His film credits include White Palace (1990), The Juror (1996), All…

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 30

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Screenwriting 101: Liz Hannah

“The perspective of whose point of view you’re telling the story from, what character you want your audience to empathize with… At AFI we…

Daily Dialogue —April 30, 2019

Uncle Henry Skinner: [Bringing out two bottles of wine] I thought, as it’s your last night here, it only appropriate that we open something…

I saw the movie on an airplane returning from France and enjoyed it.

Alistair and Kitty Pong Eddie and Fiona Astrid and Michael Aramina and Colin (their wedding) Peik Lin and Rachel Astrid and Rachel Eleanor…

Script Analysis: “Crazy Rich Asians” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown

Read the script for the smash hit romantic comedy and analyze it this week.

5 Keys to the Screenwriting Craft

Think Concepts. Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Live Life.

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 29

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

On Writing

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head — and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can…

Daily Dialogue — April 29, 2019

“Ah! Ahhhhh!”

Screenwriting News (April 22-April 28, 2019)

The week’s writing deals and movie project news.

4,000!

Today marks the 4000th consecutive day I have blogged at Go Into The Story!

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 28

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Character On The Screen [Part 1]

“Every character in the story of the scenarist should be established as an individual — a living, breathing, real person.”

“Creative Hints and Cheats for Writers”

Advice from screenwriter Dale Launer.

Daily Dialogue — April 28, 2019

Mona Lisa Vito: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can’t make those marks without positraction…

Wilder is absolutely my favorite director and The Apartment is my favorite movie.

Have you seen the series I did on ‘Conversations with Wilder’?

J E, your process sounds similar to mine and the one I teach in my story prep classes.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 388th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 27

This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.