- Your Modus Operandi
- How do you not go crazy?
- Letting protag die in the end?
- Charlie Kaufman BAFTA talk on Screenwriting
- Writing time.
- What's the proper way to use songs?
- Killing a horse
- Any advise on how to write better action lines?
- How to show the intangible "stake" and "need"
- Words versus images
- How long does it take?
- Charlie Kaufman's BAFTA Speech comments about craft
- Scriptment
- How do you handle burn-out?
- You know you're on to a winner when...?
- Limitations
- Plot Point 2
- Passion
- Choices
- Writing a period film
- Style of writing and tone of story.
- Changing the primary goal
- Expressing Character's Thoughts
- Where did it start for you
- Central Dramatic Argument
- Defining Subtext
- Narrative assets and momentum?
- Over-thinking
- Scott Frank on Character
- Put more clues in a script than you'd want in the movie?
- Style?
- Watch the movie "Diner"
- Plot first theme second
- Dramatic Irony
- 33 page act one
- Injecting heart and likeability
- Complexity vs simplicity
- What a screenwriter does
- How violent is "Too Violent?"
- Naming Characters
- Avoiding dourness?
- No way Out?
- Haunting, Atmospheric Music To Write To...
- Do writers have to know the answers to all their unanswered questions?
- Funny in a treatment?
- Recurring Themes in Your Writing
- Ten Pages And A Whammie?
- My Karate is better than your Karate!
- Problems with pacing - suggestions?
- Andrew Stanton on keys to a great story
- Warning... Do Not Read
- For major discoveries or revelations do you want the audience to know things ahead?
- Screenwriting and Script Reading
- Pre-lap?
- The "we see" debate
- Advice formatting a scene with cutaways to other locations?
- Character Flaw and Plot Conflict
- First Person POV for screenplays -- pros and cons?
- Webcams formatting?
- Words to Eliminate...
- Exposition and complex sci-fi concept
- What is dramatic writing?
- Fight scenes...how detailed?
- Character Focus
- Second act. How to build it?
- REMINDER - Please read
- Does the end of the first ten pages need a cliffhanger?
- Fictionalizing non-fiction dialogue
- How many scripts?
- Femme Fatale
- Supporting Characters - Too Minor to Include?
- If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
- Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
- The Three Unique rules of Scriptwriting
- Dialogue in Montage?
- John Cleese on Creativity
- Will you still love me tomorrow?
- Imperfections
- "Very Entertaining ... But Forgettable"
- Bill Martell--script tip 4-18-12
- RomCom or not?
- What's it Called?
- Real, yet not believable in a script? Actual Aussie sex scandal
- Ven's First Law of Screenwriting
- Controversial topic: Ethnic names...
- Including real archival footage
- The Theme of a Screenplay
- Please
- Your experiences - Questions from your pitches
- Appreciating a complex narrative: The Wire
- Downer Endings
- The problem with 99% of all unsold/unmade screenplays
- Never Underestimate The Power Of Brainstorming
- Saying what you mean