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Script Analysis: “Stan & Ollie” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic…

Daily Dialogue theme next week: Wine

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Interview (Video): Dan Gilroy

The Season 8 episode of the PBS series “On Story” with the writer-director of Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2019

Rudolf Abel: Standing there like that you reminded me of the man that used to come to our house when I was young. My father used to say…

Writing Mantra: “Writing is rewriting”

Perhaps no more true than in relation to screenwriting.

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 26

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

Spec Script Deal: “I Heart Murder”

Sony Pictures Entertainment acquire thriller spec script “I Heart Murder” written by Thomas O’Donnell. From Deadline:

Keys to the Craft: Live Life

In order to be creative, you need to feed your soul.

Writing and the Creative Life: Is the key to creativity “unlearning”?

What if everything we have learned in our lives has actually diminished our creativity?

Daily Dialogue — April 26, 2019

“Can’t you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can…

Script Analysis: “The Favourite” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic…

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 25

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

How they write a script — Billy Wilder

“In a serious pictures, you don’t hear them being bored, but in a comedy you can hear them not laughing. You tried so hard and the guy did…

Keys to the Craft: Write Pages

The only path toward productivity as a writer is to stare down the blank page.

The Business of Screenwriting: Weather Vanes

“With all these smart folks around, why are there so many weather vanes?”

Daily Dialogue — April 25, 2019

Arthur Kirkland: And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution is not gonna get that man today. No! Because I’m gonna get him! My…

Wow, Rose, that is some awesome analysis.

Thanks for your in-depth analysis! Hope you learned something from the entire process.

Script Analysis: “Vice” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and…

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 24

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

Tweetstorm: Eric Heisserer on the Current Slate of Action Heroes

“Perhaps this is the result of comic book heroes taking the throne at the box office, but I’ve been missing the vulnerable protagonist.”

Keys to the Craft: Read Scripts

Essential to read screenplays to study style, tone, feel, structure, pace…

Script To Screen: “Saving Mr. Banks”

A fun scene from the 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith.

Daily Dialogue — April 24, 2019

Michael: Really. You think your judgement is state-of-the-art right now? They’re putting everything on the table here. You need to stop and…

Glad you found that analysis helpful, Salkis.

Thanks for your comments!

Allow me to echo your sentiments with regard to the job Rose did with this breakdown.

Re boldface: When you’re Damien Chazelle, you don’t worry about any of that because you are an already established writer-director.