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Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Write your best book or script - using storytelling tricks from your favorite movies!
By Alexandra Sokoloff · Launched a year ago
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Practice Story: ENCANTO
Encanto is a great watch to learn Essential Story Elements - 15 minutes at a time.
May 8
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Practice Story
Key Story Element: Protagonist's DESIRE
Apr 24
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ENCANTO breakdown
Sequence One Essential Story Elements
May 15
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What sells a book to TV / the movies?
Case study: SLOW HORSES. Very, very often, the first person to say yes to a book and pass it up the line for studio consideration is the reader, or story analyst. Before I sold my first film script, I worked as a reader for a mini-major (film and TV studio).
Mar 25
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
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Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day
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Ten Romantic Movies
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Practice Story
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What sells a book to TV / the movies?
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Your First Draft Is Always Going to Suck
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Your First Draft Is Always Going to Suck
I’ve never read Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. But I understand the metaphor of the Slough of Despond. We’ve all been there, right? We’ve been there…
Mar 19
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
Nanowrimo Now What?
Mar 5
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Nanowrimo Now What?
Top Ten Things I Know About Editing
Feb 27
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You can learn from the bad ones, too.
While down with Covid this month I watched the first episode of The Gilded Age. I’m not recommending it! But it was a great example of an OPENING IMAGE…
Feb 20
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Ten Romantic Movies
- to help you write your love plot!
Feb 12
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Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day
Act I breakdown
Feb 2
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Essential Story Elements: Into the Special World
INTO THE SPECIAL WORLD is one of the most important scenes of the Act I of any story, and for a writer or filmmaker, maybe even the most important one…
Jan 28
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15 Minutes of Writing a Day
equals a book in a year!
Jan 16
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
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Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day
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Ten Romantic Movies
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Practice Story
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What sells a book to TV / the movies?
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Your First Draft Is Always Going to Suck
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Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
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