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Against The Odds
Aristotle
General
- A WRITER’S BOOKSHELF
- TWO WEBSITES
- A NEW SCREENWRITING FORUM
- THE EXPLODING SCRIBOSPHERE
- Q & A BY PODCAST
- HURRICANE VICTIMS
- TWO FOR THE ROAD
- WORTH THE BANDWIDTH?
- WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR HERE?
- WRITER’S HOLIDAY
- R.I.P. THINKING WRITER?
- CLASSIC POSTS
- CLASSIC POSTS
Legal
- MY IDEA GOT STOLEN
- REACQUIRING YOUR WORK
- Remember “Separated Rights”?
- SHOULD I SIGN THE RELEASE?
- LEVERAGE YOUR SUCCESS
- OBTAINING SHORT STORY RIGHTS
- WHEN YOU NEED A RIGHTS RELEASE
- NO FREE LUNCH
- REAL LIFE – WHAT INFO CAN YOU USE?
- 5 QUESTIONS
- CAN I USE THAT?
Library
- TWO BOOKS ON DIALOGUE
- The Complete Guide To Standard Script Formats: The Screenplay
- A WRITER’S BOOKSHELF
- I READ IT FOR THE INTERVIEWS, REALLY
- READING ABOUT WRITING
- MORE SCRIPTS
- Commie, Pinko, Screenwriter
- New Genre: Screenwriter Fiction
- Alligator’s Guide To Screenplay
- Sider-ways
News
- SCREENWRITING NEWS
- HEADS UP FOR MAC SCREENWRITERS
- SCREENWRITING NEWS #2
- EVERYBODY LOVES BETA
- ANOTHER TURN OF THE SCREW
- STATE OF THE WRITER’S STRIKE
- HERE’S WHAT WRITERS EARNED THIS YEAR
- Screenwriter Says Tony Blair Plagiarized For His Autobiography
- Is The WGA Forcing Credits on Non-Writers?
- Isreali Commandos Steal Screenplay
- Screenwriter Accuses Gays of Fuel Efficiency
- Telephone Booth Meets Hot Dog Cart
- Thirty Grand And A Hand Shake
- Best Screenplay Adapted From A…Fragrance?!
- Writer Makes $9 Million Sale With No Agent
- Alba Disses Screenwriters
- The Rubik’s Cube That Saved The World
- Not Your Mother’s Script-O-Rama
People
- GARY ROSS AND THE MARVIN BOROWSKI LECTURE ON SCREENWRITING
- POST OSCAR ENNUI
- DEALING WITH STUDIO EXECS
- JOB DESCRIPTIONS: “WRITER”, “PRODUCER”, “AGENT”
- TWO WEBSITES
- JOHNAUGUST.COM
- REMEMBER THE GREATS
- SCARY MONSTERS
- PAUL DOES CRAIG
- WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE
- WHAT A WRITER CAN BE
- TWO FOR THE ROAD
- OPB (Other People’s Blogs)
- ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
- WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
- KURT VONNEGUT (1922-2007)
- Death Race
- What Does Paul Haggis Know?
- Seems Everyone’s Doing It
- Nineteen Years Ago, Thelma & Louise Drove Over A Cliff
- Why You Should Change Your Name To Sheldon
- Screenwriter Says Tony Blair Plagiarized For His Autobiography
- “What’s the cheapest film I can make?”
- “Don’t have him say something unless it’s really f*cking crucial.”
- Screenwriter Irving Ravetch Passes
- All About Aaron
- No Oscar, But We’ll Take A Copy Of Your Script, Please
- Mobster? Writer? What’s The Difference?
- Alien Invasion?
- Isreali Commandos Steal Screenplay
- When Screenwriting Gets To You….
- Mr. Story Reviews Movies
- Rick Springfield’s Writing One, Too
- Aaron Likes Improv, But Not With His Scripts
- Thirty Grand And A Hand Shake
- Rich Football Player Is Writing One, Too
- Nice Guy Eddie
- The Mineshaft Gap
- Screenwriter versus Subway
- Shut Up and Write
- Alba Disses Screenwriters
- The What Festival?!?
- Commie, Pinko, Screenwriter
- He Really Wanted To Be A Lawyer
- Disarming Interview
- Everything Is Copy
- If You Know These People, Suck Up
- Who Wrote The King’s Speech?
- Hollywood Won’t Let Him Do Good
- Sider-ways
Resources
- THE WORD LIST
- PAID SUBMISSION SERVICES
- CONFUSING WORDS
- TRUBYVILLE
- HOW TO MAKE A MILLON DOLLARS AND PAY NO TAXES
- TECHNOLOGY AND SCREENWRITING
- BOOT CAMP
- DISTANCE LEARNING
- HEADS UP FOR MAC SCREENWRITERS
- EVERYBODY LOVES BETA
- MORE SCRIPTS, PT. 2
- SCREENWRITING 2.O
- WIKI, ANYONE?
- Beyond The Nicholl Fellowship
- No Oscar, But We’ll Take A Copy Of Your Script, Please
- Writer Posts Script
- Nice Guy Eddie
- The Atlantic Knows Post-Modern Adaptation
- Amazon Lets People Screw With Your Script
Story
The Business
- WGA EVENT
- IN IT FOR THE MONEY?
- WHEN TO TURN DOWN REWRITE WORK
- “…BUT IS IT A MOVIE?”
- Remember “Separated Rights”?
- COMPETING WITH JUNK
- WHAT SHOULD YOU WRITE?
- GOT AGENT?
- SCRIPT BY BLOG
- TAKING MEETINGS
- AGENTS CHARGING COSTS
- SELLING BY TRAILER
- DEALING WITH STUDIO EXECS
- PRODUCER NOTES & FREE REWRITES
- ARE THE GATES OF HOLLYWOOD CLOSED?
- WHY WE FIGHT – PART 2
- WHAT AGENTS THINK
- LONELY WRITERS. . . .
- LEVERAGE YOUR SUCCESS
- OBTAINING SHORT STORY RIGHTS
- TO SELL OR NOT TO SELL….
- THE WRITER’S STEP DEAL
- IF YOU KNOW A STUDIO HEAD…
- UNWINDING PRODUCER DEALS
- READER PREJUDICE
- SPECS, GRANTS & TRUST FUND BABIES
- PACKAGING AGENTS
- SO NOW WHAT? SHORT STORY RIGHTS PART DEUX
- SCARY MONSTERS
- SHOULD TYPOS COUNT?
- THE NO HOBBY ZONE
- NO FREE LUNCH
- THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS
- OPTION OR NO OPTION?
- COPYRIGHT OR COPYWRONG?
- AGENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND MONEY
- BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
- THIS IS HOW HARD THE GAME IS, FOLKS
- OLD FLAME
- IS MY AGENT A TURKEY?
- MYSTERY PEOPLE
- ARTFUL DEBATE
- WHO ARE YOUR CHAMPIONS?
- MANAGEMENT CONCERNS
- HOMEGROWN
- A DIFFERENT WAY IN
- 5 QUESTIONS
- SPLITSVILLE
- THE TERRIBLE JOB OF PRODUCER
- NO FREE LUNCH II
- SOME PEOPLE SEE THE GLASS AS HALF-EMPTY….
- THE LAWYER THING
- THE WAITING PLACE
- REWRITERS IN HELL
- WHY HE WON’T READ YOUR F^(!ING SCRIPT
- How To Know If Your Script Is A Blockbuster
- Seems Everyone’s Doing It
- Nineteen Years Ago, Thelma & Louise Drove Over A Cliff
- Why You Should Change Your Name To Sheldon
- To Pitch Or Not To Pitch
- Are “Script Reviews” A Good Idea?
- Too Early To Think Oscar?
- Blood Poured Onto This Film
- Is The WGA Forcing Credits on Non-Writers?
- Screenwriter Irving Ravetch Passes
- They Actually Mention The Writers
- Thirty Grand And A Hand Shake
- A History of Rejection
- Best Screenplay Adapted From A…Fragrance?!
- The What Festival?!?
- The Rubik’s Cube That Saved The World
- Amazon Lets People Screw With Your Script
- Not Your Mother’s Script-O-Rama
- Sider-ways
The Craft
- FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICES OF SCREENWRITING
- GARY ROSS AND THE MARVIN BOROWSKI LECTURE ON SCREENWRITING
- POST OSCAR ENNUI
- THINGS TO DO: (1) WRITE BETTER DIALOGUE
- GURUS AND OTHER MIRACLES
- WHEN TO TURN DOWN REWRITE WORK
- RULES TO IGNORE: PART I
- “…BUT IS IT A MOVIE?”
- WRITING WITH A PARTNER
- COMPETING WITH JUNK
- WHAT SHOULD YOU WRITE?
- WHAT IS A SCENE?
- WRITING ACTION SEQUENCES
- REMARKABLE IDEAS
- NIETZSCHE IS PEACHY
- CLICHÉ, ANYONE?
- LONELY WRITERS. . . .
- WHAT MAKES A GOOD STORY?
- FORMATTING TIPS FROM PROS
- REVEALING CHARACTER NAMES LATER
- SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
- TOO HOT TO IGNORE
- SHOULD TYPOS COUNT?
- STORY THEORY
- NINETY-NINE % AWFUL
- F%$?#ING PROFANITY
- CRACKING THE STORY
- FIRST CLASS
- A FEW SCENE CONSTRUCTION BASICS
- REWRITE = FOCUS
- ACTION – ROGERS’ STYLE
- ENDINGS
- WHAT IS AN IDEA WORTH?
- STOP WRITING SCREENPLAYS
- WHAT IS CHARACTER CHANGE?
- 5 THINGS I HATE ABOUT EVERYONE
- MASSIVE BLOODLETTING
- 5 QUESTIONS
- ROUGH DIAMONDS
- PUT THE DOGS OUT
- “HELP ME HELP YOU”
- THE ANSWER TO ALL FORMATTING QUESTIONS EVER
- HANG YOUR ASS OUT THERE
- WAITING….
- COMPRESSING MY OWN POST
- CHECKING THE STRUCTURE
- IN DEFENSE OF COFFEE SHOPS
- TOE IN THE SHALLOW END
- KURT VONNEGUT (1922-2007)
- REWRITERS IN HELL
- PERSONALITY BY KEIRSEY
- SCREENWRITING WIKI
- Rest In Peace, Budd Schulberg
- What Does Paul Haggis Know?
- Why You Should Change Your Name To Sheldon
- WGA Moves Into Porn
- “It made me love Ronnie Reagan”
- “Don’t have him say something unless it’s really f*cking crucial.”
- Screenwriting On The iPad
- CNN Wants You To Be A Good Writer
- Dan Akroyd Is Writing One, Too
- Writer Posts Script
- Huffpo: Every Writer Should Watch Jersey Shore
- The Atlantic Knows Post-Modern Adaptation
- Judge Abuses Writer, Appellate Court Rescues Him
- Who Wrote The King’s Speech?
Theme
- THEME; AGAIN
- TEXT VS. SUBTEXT, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH…
- WHY BOTHER WITH THEME?
- BUT I HAVE A THEME!?
- WORDPLAYER ON “THEME”
- WHY WE FIGHT
- THAT OLD DEVIL THEME
- THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THEME….
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