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Go Into The Story
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Daily Musings on Screenwriting, Movies, and the Creative Life, hosted by Scott Myers who has a 20-year career as a professional screenwriter with three movie credits: K-9, ALASKA, TROJAN WAR.
- Added on: May 20th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Scott Myers
- Listed in: Writing Film
- Tags: movies hollywood screenwriting screenplay storytelling writing resource
Recent Posts
14 Days of Screenplays, Version 3.0 -- Day 13: Crash
Today is Day 12 of the "14 Days of Screenplays, Version 3.0" challenge and the featured screenplay is for the movie Crash (2004). You can download the script from myPDFscripts.com here.Background: The movie was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, winni...
Midnight Musings
Every time I sit in the dark in a theater, that moment just before a movie begins, I have an expectation, a hope, a longing...I want to be taken into another world.I want to be swept up into the lives of the people I will meet on screen.I want to be ...
Running through the streets of NYC
I just caught the ending of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) on TCM. Here it is:Note that between 0:20-0:36, Audrey Hepburn's character, Holly Golightly, runs through the rain on the sidewalks of NYC. And that made me wonder how many movies have that ...
Writers on how they write: Russell Banks
The Wall Street Journal had a great article a few weeks back: "How to Write a Great Novel", reflections by novelists on how they approach writing. Since the article is subscription only, I'm featuring one writer per day here, highlighting their proce...
Winner: Daily Dialogue Contest
GITS reader Aleks emailed me about the 14 Day challenge noting that I had not included any scripts written by a woman. And that rather surprised me because I had made a point of doing precisely that with Version 1.0 (Thelma & Louise written by C...
Interview: Joseph Stefano (Psycho)
Since our 14 Day script yesterday was Psycho, and we featured an interview with the the movie's director Alfred Hitchcock, I thought we should feature the screenwriter as well. So here is a written interview conducted with Stefano in 2003. A fascin...
