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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.
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Screenwriting 101 -- Walter Hill
"When I'm working alone, the old hard way. Longhand. Fountain pen. Legal pad. Thesaurus at my side. This last item, I'm not ashamed to say, is quite helpful -- when you write screenplays, you don't have a lot of room, and the stage directions can bec...
Screenwriting 101: Stirling Silliphant
"The writing is the easiest part of it. The trying period is the period of conceptualization, followed by research. This prewriting time can take anywhere from six months to ten years. But once I know everything there is to know about my characters...
Screenwriting 101: Paul Schrader
"I know exactly where I'm going beforehand. I know to the half page if I'm on or off target. I draw up charts before I do a script. I endlessly chart and re-chart a movie. Before I sit down to write, I have all the scenes listed, what happens in each...
Screenwriting 101: Alvin Sargent
"You must write everyday. Free yourself. Free association. An hour alone a day. Blind writing. Write in the dark. Don't think about what it is you're writing. Just put a piece of paper in the typewriter, take your clothes off and go! No destination.....
Screenwriting 101: Anna Hamilton Phelan
"If I could say anything... it is to keep going. Don't go back and fix that first scene. Don't go back and fix that dialogue. Write yourself a little note saying, 'Put in first scene such-and-such,' if you happen to think of something, then get a lit...
Screenwriting 101: David Lynch
''For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee - with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a si...
