**UPDATE 3/20/2013**Our first winner is Angella Davis! Congratulations Angella. Email us and we can figure out the details of your free movie!
-- Original Post Awesome news for our newsletter subscribers today. We’re launching our new program, “Script Quack Goes to the Movies.”
It’s a lot like how it sounds. A couple of times a month, we’re going to go to the movies. We do that anyways. But here’s the cool part…
Every time we go, one of you is going to come with us, for free. That’s right.
You pick the movie. We buy your ticket. Then we all go to a movie together.
After the movie we can grab a cup of coffee, talk about the flick, discuss screenwriting in general, whatever your heart desires.
Perfect if you live in LA, or if you’re in town visiting for a few days. We’d love to meet you.
More details will be emailed out on Wednesday, Feb. 27 2013, including instructions on how to participate.
So join the email list now. Free movie. What are you waiting for?
| The Blacklist is a list of all of the hottest unproduced scripts passed around Hollywood each year. Past Blacklist scripts have included: Juno, Lars and the Real Girl and 500 Days of Summer.
Each year when the list comes out, screenwriters erupt with jealousy and self-loathing.
| | The annual list of Hollywood's unproduced screenplays, as voted on by dozens of industry professionals.
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“Why aren’t I on the list? How can I be on the list next year? No one knows I exist.”
Reading about Blacklist success stories, writers feel a million miles away. They don’t think they’d ever make it onto a list like that, and they don’t know how they’d go about even trying.
For this article, we did a little research into the writers featured on this year’s Blacklist so you can see how you measure up...
| | The benefits of coming up with a truly original, unique, high concept idea are clear:- The PERFECT concept will interest producers, agents and managers
- The PERFECT concept will get you meetings
- The PERFECT concept has the potential to catapult your career into the stratosphere
- The PERFECT concept, well executed, will make you very successful as a screenwriter
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All of these benefits get screenwriters chomping at the bit, ready to write their ground -breaking idea and move to Beverly Hills already.
But BEWARE the concept that seems too good to be true.
For every PERFECT concept, there are a hundred IMPOSSIBLE concepts that seem perfect to the untrained eye.
Read this article to find out if your next project is one of a kind, or just another hunk of that familiar Hollywood Fool's Gold.
| If you’re like most screenwriters, you’ve got a long list of writing resolutions for 2013.
But like other New Year's commitments, these resolutions are probably vague and impractical. They’re going to be hard to keep.
Before you know it you’ll be settled back into bad writing habits, treating 2013 just like every year that’s come before it.
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Rest easy though. That doesn’t have to be your fate. This year can and will be different… If you want it to be.
The ten items on this list will force you to re-evaluate your process and renew your commitment to screenwriting.
They’ll ground you. Challenge you. Help you understand your writing in completely new ways.
Most importantly, they’ll help you become a better writer in 2013.
| These questions will help you solve any scene problem without going completely insane in the process.
In a lot of ways, screenwriting is simply problem solving.
The writer sets out with a goal. Get the hero from start to finish. Write a compelling story. | |
But that goal can only be achieved if the writer first answers a complex web of questions, each one related to the next.
More often than not, writers don’t get stuck on the answers to these questions. They get stuck because they aren’t asking the right questions in the first place.
This series of five questions will help you get at the root of the problems you’re having with your script.
They’re simple and straightforward, but they’ll help you solve even the most challenging screenwriting problems.
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