Here are more articles to read from Script Magazine.

From The Lens: 9 Visual Styles In One Shot
Nathan Blair (DP) talks about how he broke down the script for Ari and Emma sketch comedy video, 'Juicefast,' and created 9 visual styles for one shot.
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The Wide Margin: The Writer’s Most Unkindest Cut of All
Kevin Delin attends an Oscar panel discussion where he is reminded that film editors cut writers as well as film.
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5 Reasons Screenplay Story Structure is Important and FREE Story Structure Tips Download
Whether you write a story or a screenplay, it’s always advisable to work out the plot ahead of time so you can discover the best way of telling it to not only appease the reader, but also to engage your audience. Write a story that wins over your audience with our FREE story structure guidance from the experts.
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Inner Drives: What’s My Character Motivation? Driving the Character Arcs
The Inner Drives offer an excellent paradigm for moving your character through various states of mind, emotions, and actions. Pamela Jaye Smith explains the three approaches to character arcs.
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Script Symbology: The Synchronicity Of Classic Scripts
One method for finding the presence of synchronicity in scripts is to select those classic scripts that have been written in the shorted amount of time. John Fraim explains.
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Here's more writer resources from Script Magazine

UPCOMING SCREENWRITING EVENTS for April!

Screenwriters University:
Classes are through an online platform that you can access anytime. There are weekly assignments to keep up with, but for the most part, you can follow at your own pace.

• Write your Feature Film in 6 Weeks, 4/3
• Advanced Television Rewriting Workshop, 4/3
• Creating High Concept Screenplay Ideas, 4/3
• Mastering the Essential Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, 4/3
• How to Sell Your Script, 4/10
• Crafting the Scene, 4/10
• The Fundamentals of Screenwriting, 4/10
• Beginning Feature Film Writing: Act II & III, 4/10
• Proper Formatting Technique, 4/17
• Introduction to Playwiritng, 4/17
• Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact, 4/17
• Conventions of the Screenplay, 4/17
• Storytelling, 4/17
• Construct Compelling Characters, 4/17
• Beginning Feature Film Writing, 4/17
• Writing a Spec Script for a Television Comedy or Drama Series, 4/24
• Beginning Television Writing, 4/24
• Story Development and Outlining, 4/24
• Writing the Adaptation, 4/24
• Writing the Comedy Feature Film, 4/24

 Screenwriting Webinars

• Specs Don't Sell: How to Build Your Screenwriting Career, 4/3
• How to Write Sparkling Dialogue: Advanced Techniques to Make Your Script Shine, 4/7
• The Television Plunge: Mad Men's Amazing On-Screen Workplace and Inspired Family of Characters, 4/17
• Creating Funny Characters, 4/22

 Script Magazine Mentor Series with Oscar-Winning Producer Ed Saxon

Getting advice from experienced industry professionals is invaluable. Script Magazine gives you access inside the mind of Ed Saxon, Oscar-winning producer of Silence of the Lambs in our one-of-a-kind online mentor series. Join Ed for the entire series or individual classes.

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• A Producer's Guide to Navigating Your Screenwriting Career: The System, On Demand
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• A Producer's Guide to Navigating Your Screenwriting Career: The Story, 4/4
• A Producer's Guide to Navigating Your Screenwriting Career: The Path, 4/11
• A Producer's Guide to Navigating Your Screenwriting Career: The Current Landscape, 4/18
• A Producer's Guide to Navigating Your Screenwriting Career: The Hero, 4/25

 Classes at The Writers Store in Burbank

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• Story Worlds – You Too Can Create a Franchise, Part 1, 4/12
• Story Worlds – You Too Can Create a Franchise, Part 2, 4/26
• Story Worlds – You Too Can Create a Franchise, Part 3, 5/3
• Story Worlds – You Too Can Create a Franchise, Part 4, 5/24

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Critique - cover the follow:
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- Development
 -Climax
 -Conclusion
 -Character development
 -Mid point development

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Edits and Critiques will continue to be offered separately if a writer just wants one or the other.

Edits: $48.00 flat fee
- covers proper formatting, grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure.

Turnaround time 2 weeks

Critique: $58.00 flat fee
-Introduction
- Development
 -Climax
 -Conclusion
 -Character development
 -Mid point development

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Query letter Service

I provide query letter writing service for scripts and books.

Query Letter: $28.00 flat fee

Turnaround time 2 weeks

Book Consulting Service

I only provide Critique service for fiction novels. Why fiction only? Because fiction is my strong point.

Critique: $87.00 flat fee

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I do not edit books. I only critique them. Editing books requires a lot of time consuming detail.

Payment

Payments are made by Paypal. If you do not have a Paypal account, payments may be made as cashier checks or money orders by postal mail.

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Happy Saturday!

Check out the following articles from Script Magazine. They were sent to me in an email.


Behind the Lines with DR: Movie Turnaround and The Enemies List
Doug Richardson, writer of 'Die Hard 2,' tells a tale of a writing assignment, a divorcee, studio politics and movie turnaround.
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Notes from the Margins: The Difference Between A Hook and A Gimmick
These days, writers often get confused between a hook and a gimmick. And the two are not the same thing. Danny Manus explains the differences.
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Back to the Chalkboard: Location, Location, Location
Brad Riddell, screenwriter and professor, gives 10 things to consider when choosing the location of your stories.
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Stories Without Borders: Writing Abroad
Julie Gray, an author, script consultant and former script reader moved from L.A. to Tel Aviv. She shares her global view of writing abroad in her new column, Stories Without Borders.
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Wendy LA4HIRE: What Every Screenwriter Can Learn from Alfred Hitchcock
Producer Wendy Kram shares what screenwriters can learn from Alfred Hitchcock films from exposition to character development.
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The Power Of Thinking

We don't think much anymore. I'm talking about really thinking. Our modern tech world keeps up wired constantly to some sort of high tech device. We can't do anything without them. This has created a thinking deficiency. If the brain doesn't think, the brain will shrink. Once the human brain starts shrinking---- I don't want to think about what will happen to society!

So at least for 15 to 30 minutes a day or a week turn off all your tech stuff, including the TV, go outside, look at the scenery, and think. Think about anything that comes to mind.

Building Your Story Arc: Discovering the Bones of Your Story

(I recently got this in an email from Writers Digest. Check it out.)

SUE JOHNSON eMedia ProductionCoordinator Writer's Digest Tutorials Structure in a story, whether fiction, nonfiction, short or long, has to do with integrity--wholeness. There is a whole and that whole is not visible or predictable to the reader but sensed by the reader. The result is something like giving a reader an experience of "gravity," which they will experience as your expertise and talent--and take the power of that for granted. Now testing for the structural elements represents the best tool a writer can use to find that integrity of story. Furthermore testing for structure can often get a writer out of story trouble, especially when we hit a "wall" in continuing to develop a story. Charlotte Cook, MFA, is a former publisher and acquisition editor who now works as a story editor. Her clients are often successfully published and have won awards and honorable mention for their work, including in Writer's Digest contests. She is a published writer as well, writing creative nonfiction and literary short stories. Her suggestions, examples and comments are considered practical and follow a simple guideline: compelling story, engaging characters, evocative world. Her Writer's Digest Tutorial "8 Things First-time Novelists Need to Avoid" was the number one tutorial of 2012. During this 58-minute video tutorial, you'll discover tools to: Move your story forward Measure the effectiveness of the story arc Trouble-shoot issues of pace and momentum Understand how readers perceive gravity-like structure Evaluating the effectiveness of the structural integrity of your story is an ongoing process within completing a story. No talk here of outlines before the fact, superimposing requirements that don't relate to the story arc. Instead this practical, reader-oriented approach might even result in the pitch and synopsis material you will need at a later date for agents, editors and publishers. Wouldn't that be a great by-product? Preview Building Your Story Arc: Discovering the Bones of Your Story > Writer's Digest Tutorials Members enjoy full access to all tutorials featured in this newsletter, as well as every tutorial on the site. Haven't taken advantage of the wisdom bestowed through the WD tutorials yet? Why not try it out today and see all that our WD tutorials have to offer! You can try WD Tutorials for only $25/month! You will enjoy instant access to 156+ tutorials, including at least one new tutorial added weekly. Also, there are many new tutorials still in development. Feel free to preview the many tutorials immediately available to you through the WD Tutorials site. Wishing you a great week! ~ Sue Johnson~ P.S. If you missed the last newsletter (or two), be sure to watch these new and featured tutorials: Writing the Thriller: The Secrets to Keeping Readers Up All Night First Impressions: Writing Opening Lines, Paragraphs, and Chapters That Keep an Agent's Interest Full Cast: How to Enrich and Expand Every Character in Your Novel Writing a Story Ending that Leaves a Lasting Impression Create Characters that Propel Your Novel to the Bestseller List How to Create an Engaging Blog and Build an Audience Three Secrets of the Greats: Structure Your Story for Ultimate Reader Addiction For quick and easy access to all WD Tutorials available to you, use this link: View All WD Tutorials >

Tutorials to Help You Hone Your Writing

Why Am I Getting Rejected? Start Your Story Right: How to Hook an Agent in Your First Pages An Agent’s Tips on Story Structures that Sell How to Plot and Structure Your Novel Write a Memoir That Sells Crafting and Selling a Page-Turner How to Write Dialogue Like a Pro Build Solid Story Structure & Write Great Fiction

2014 Guide to Literary Agents: An Author's Best Investment!

Good Morning, Readers!

Last month I purchased the 2014 Guide To Literary Agents.

This is my review of the book: Excellent!

As the ads for the guide say, the book really is full of over a thousand literary agents. All you have to do is go through it and pick out the ones for you.

So if you have not bought the book, get it. The most you'll pay is $30.00. I got mine on sale for $22.78. Buying the book is much better than spending time online searching for literary agents on the internet.


  
 

Screenwriting Tips: Dialog

Good morning readers! It has been a while since I updated my web site. I have been busy. Below is some information from a an email from Script Magazine Online. Read the article. It is good info to help you. **************** Jeanne's Screenwriting Tips: You're Dead to Me
	Jeanne Veillette Bowerman Online Editor ScriptMag.com

One way to insult your audience is to write dialogue that's flat or on-the-nose. Our resident expert on dialogue is Karl Iglesias, and he has a webinar on Monday, April 7th, to help you master dialogue writing. Check out How to Write Sparkling Dialogue: Advanced Techniques to Make Your Script Shine, now ON SALE until April 4, 2014.

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by Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

(Please read Jeanne's article on writing effective dialog for a script. Click below.)

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