- Too close to the real deal?
- Marrying a character
- Opening Scenes
- Another out of the blue naive starting out questio
- Antagonists & Protagonists: A Love Story
- Stuck on a bit of dialog
- Overheard
- A question about research.
- dialog in the office / boardroom
- Question about Titles
- Ethical responsibilites - real historical events?
- The Meaning of Good Coverage
- Finding an agent
- Outliners
- Super Impose or Sub Title ?? Plz help.
- Terms for the experienced writers.
- Is Outline the most important thing?
- How do u do this ? Please help
- What Do You Want Investigated?
- Format Question - the mind's eye
- How to write a synopsis?
- Has pop psychology ruined storytelling?
- The End
- Three vs. Five Vs. Nine act structure.
- Languages
- Screenplay Length
- Is there anything I should know??
- The topic of pacing!!!!
- getting an agent? -long-
- Commercial Taboos
- Women's views
- Writing for the DTV Market
- Heroes
- Format Question - Character's POV
- Character Development Technique
- Multiple villains with underlying common thread?
- Screenplay presentation format
- Another Spec Question
- On the conceptual side...
- Introducing new characters late
- late characters
- Anybody Here Ever Sold a Screenplay?
- Genre: Romance Comedy vs. Romance
- In search of a flaw
- Advice requested
- Querying Production Companies
- Words and Worlds
- Alert
- Genre Question
- Classic Dialog
- Developing main characters
- Making minor characters interesting
- Morals in movies?
- Thematic question
- trilogy question
- Between the lines
- Dialogue
- Slang
- Treatment
- Sequels
- Best surprise ending
- Congrats Bill Marquart
- Great character development tool
- Use voice-over narration or no? Help!
- When They're Wrong
- Ego vs. Paycheck
- What makes good suspense?
- How could a "toon" seduce you?
- Question on endings
- When the Agent likes your script
- Technology. Hindrance or Help?
- Detective Films, and an introduction...
- Should We All Be Writing NOVELS Instead????
- Question about Budgets
- WGA question?
- Realism
- Script Format!!!
- (Hopefully) a Happy topic/"Q"
- Happy topic #2: "Uphill Films"
- Movies - a lost art form?
- The Perfect Sneak Attack. How do you do it
- Survivors?
- saving work from mmagic2000 demo
- writers focus. . . being in the zone
- How much does the public suspend belief...
- "Suspension of Disbelief"
- Pseudonyms / Pen Names
- "Old characters" stereotypes & their stories
- Order of screenwriting.
- Is less more stimulating?
- Rewrite as you go or write and then rewrite?
- Musicals
- Set in Foreign Lands...?
- Endings: Happy and Otherwise
- Military Research
- The changing face of glamour and sex appeal
- Gaffe Squad
- Organizing ideas...
- Screenplays from Novels...
- f.g. and b.g.
- I need a glossary of abbreviations please.
- ?
- Should I sent my script to a start up company?
- Is there a 'buying' season in Hollywood?
- Paranoia
- Query Letter for Romantic-Comedy
- Topic deletion
- Research
- More than three lines of dialogue
- only write what is shootable...?
- Altman fans and non-fans alike
- Querying-more not less confused
- Changing Titles
- Do the WRITE thing...
- Who gave writer's rights away in film?
- Stick to your genre?
- Development vs Acquisitions
- As the pages turn,,,
- The COMMON theme...
- Why We Became Humans
- Treatment...
- Antagonists?
- Registering scripts
- Self-explanatory
- second half conflicts
- Naming Places
- Pitch Sessions
- Speed vs. Quality
- Another Query Question
- Present tense
- Title Quandry
- need a bit of advice...
- speaking of titles...
- NOTES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD TRENCHES (part one)
- Act II Procrastination
- Treatment
- Writing Sample?
- Just starting out
- High Concept Comedy!
- Giving up the day job...
- Bad Loglines = Bad Screenplays?
- Ethics
- must i move to LA/NY??
- Ageism
- Universal Consciousness
- Attention to detail and suspension of disbelief...
- Anyone use coverage sites?
- The Right Tone
- Discovering the Twist
- DGA displays an OUTRAGEOUS amount of ego...
- "Cut to" vs. "Dissolve to"
- Song references
- Fashion a screenplay for specific actors?
- getting your vision across...
- Setting the scene
- Phone meetings - what should I expect?
- Collaboration Agreement
- Stupid genre questions ...
- When the hero changes
- Querying Etiquette?
- The "myth" of querying ?? Doo-Dah, Doo Dah.
- Current event for script
- help with sports action
- Favorite Thesaurus (Thesauri?) and Companion Book
- What is Substance?
- The Conversation
- building that page-turning momentum...
- PLOT BREAKDOWN???
- The average writer...
- Details, Details...
- Buddy Vs. Group Thrown Together Films
- Novel Adaptation... legal questions
- Sarcasm and Character Perception
- Tell the story
- Subtly of Theme: Too Much or Too Little
- In or out of mainstream
- Interesting Article on Writing (Long)
- Another attempt at the first page
- Trimmed Sluglines
- First Scene
- A multitude of questions
- Too many smiles :) in a script.
- DD Get Together
- A Few Bits of Advice...
- Words on the Page
- Coverage Service Or Not to Coverage Service
- Expert opinions...
- Historical characters
- First Scene
- Saying Hey!
- A question about guns...
- A question of rewriting.
- Doing It Backwards
- First scene
- A question of time
- Timing
- SCREENWRITING ADVICE... What do you think?
- Is this too short?
- a piece of music
- A very helpful website...
- Method acting to create characters
- my first scene... again
- Questions I Need Help On.
- literary values or salability?
- Obstacles and Hurdles
- Astronaut training
- a few questions
- Idea VS Spec Script
- Writing a novel from a script
- Script Ideas...
- Question for the Non-Pros
- Navy Question (Off current topics)
- TV. Friend, or foe?
- coverage
- Unseen humor
- Paranoia - paranoia - paranoia
- CREATIVE Writing
- Can anybody explain THEME to me?
- QUERYING UNFINISHED SCRIPTS
- Instant screenwriting - just add Syd Field
- 12 Point Courier? Phooey.
- A title page question
- Romantic Comedy vs. Romantic Drama
- My idea file runneth over...
- Adaptation of a Novel
- "Too expensive to film"
- Anyone help me on a short film.
- kill the protagonist
- Dialogue = "Talking Heads"
- Style Points
- Narrator
- Spectacular Writing
- A Little Bit of Fun Speculation...
- ? the three and one-half inch dialogue line
- So... Query letters... again
- how far is too far?
- FEAR of rejection, coverage
- script study
- Are some things self explanatory?
- Treatments
- On writing dialogue
- Liberal Usage of HDWK...
- How do you awaken your muse?
- CTS
- Any Santa Monica/Hollywood collab./support groups?
- Big Budget vs. Small Budget
- Going against the experts (?)
- Dialogue! Dialogue! Dialogue!
- Improving Dialogue
- climbing Action Mountain