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Love Your Work Enough to Completely Change It
A while back I posted a blog suggesting that writers should love their characters enough to make them flawed. I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’ve seen plenty of writers who fall in love with their...
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Screenwriting: The Thong Bikini of Prose
Writing a screenplay goes against everything that we were taught in our high school and middle school English classes. We were taught to describe people and things using every adjective under the sun....
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The Holidays Are Over. Time To Get Back To Work
Now that we’re through the holiday season and all of the presents have been opened and all of the eggnog has been drunk, it’s time to focus like a laser on the new year and what you want...
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The Romantic Comedy: More To It Than You Think
With Valentine’s Day having just passed, I got to thinking about love stories, and specifically the Romantic Comedy, or RomCom as they’re often referred to in Development offices. RomCom’s are a dime...
View ArticleAn interesting article I found on writing scenes
Like any other article, it has some good points and some you should take with a grain of salt. Everyone should write in his or her own way, but there are certainly some helpful pointers in here....
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Conflict: The Life Blood of Your Screenplay
I know that the title of this blog seems to be a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised at how many people seem to forget about the principle of conflict driving the drama. Without conflict there is no...
View ArticleMonument Script Services is offering a Holiday Special!
These rates are good through the month of December. Standard Studio Notes – $85 for 72-hour delivery (Normally $115), $115 for 48-hour delivery (normally $140) and $140 for 24-hour turnaround (normally...
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Three Reasons to Start the New Year With a Professional Analysis of Your...
Now that we’ve all recovered from our New Year’s hangovers and have unwrapped all of the presents and eaten our way through the holidays, it’s time to get serious about our writing again. Here are...
View ArticleProfessional Coverage Vs. Writers’ Groups
Many writers, especially new and young writers eschew getting professional coverage in favor of getting notes from writers’ groups. Perhaps it’s the expense that they don’t like, figuring that they can...
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3 Reasons to Get Professional Coverage for Your Screenplay Before the End of...
The Holiday Season is upon us and is in full swing. Holiday parties at friends’ homes and at offices rob us of time as well as the money that we need ot use for all of those white elephant gifts that...
View ArticleFive Reasons the Outline Should Serve as the Foundation for Your Screenplay
There is so much more to writing a screenplay than just writing the screenplay. Before you ever get to writing scenes and dialogue, you need to spend hours and pages writing treatments and character...
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5 Ways That March Madness Can Teach Us About Screenwriting
As many sports fans know, the first weekend of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is one of the great weekends on the sports calendar. Sixty-four teams enter the weekend on Thursday with dreams of...
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Summertime and the Living’s Easy: The 1 Big Reason to Get Screenplay Coverage...
With the official first day of summer just a week away, I thought it would be a good time to recommend getting professional coverage for your screenplay from a service like Monument Script Services....
View ArticleA Cool Script Analysis of The Shining
Check out this link for an in depth review of what makes this film so effective.
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My Top 5 Science Fiction Films of All Time
Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s a little movie coming out this weekend called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I love the Star Wars series. The first film came out when I was 6-years old. I had all of...
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My Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been out for a few weeks, and I’ve taken some time off around the holidays, I thought I would add to the ever-growing list of masses who feel compelled to wax...
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