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Now write!: Screenwriting : exercises by today's best writers and teachers
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Publication Date
c2010
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English
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CHOOSING YOUR STORY. Start with a conflict / Mardik Martin, Hunter Hughes The cringe exercise / Hal Ackerman Trusting yourself / Alan Watt Note card R&D / Brad Riddell Concept is king / Chandus Jackson When Sally met Harry / Barri Evins The comfort zone / Christina M. Kim Finding our story / Paula C. Brancato GET WRITING. Binding and gagging the internal critic / Kim Krizan The talking cure / Wesley Strick The almighty verb / Beth Serlin Throw the book away / Alexander Woo Feeling the music / Daniel Calvisi It's the read: writing great film narrative / Glenn M. Benest Dream on / Nicholas Kazan Random thoughts / William M. Akers Analyzing your characters / Susan Kouguell The power of negative thinking / Kevin Cecil When great writing meets a great actor: writing for a star / Hester Schell Police investigation / Brad Schreiber Write truthfully in imaginary circumstances: the mythology inside you / Mark Sevi Postcards from the edge of creativity / Sam Zalutsky Found in translation / Coleman Hough STRUCTURE: The most important thing I know and teach / Chris Soth The character-action grid / David Trottier Writing in the dark / Jim Herzfeld The newspaper exercise / Linda Seger 21 questions to keep you on track / Neil Landau Key things to know about your script before you write / Barbara Schiffman Four magic questions of screenwriting / Marilyn Horowitz Creating unpredictability using subgoals and plot twists / Richard Stefanik Your outline is your ilfeline / Michael Ajakwe, Jr. The tool kit: resuscitative remedy for writer's block and blank-page elimination The genre game / Bonnie MacBird
THEME. How to move a pile of dirt / Danny Rubin
The emotionally charged icon / Karey Kirkpatrick
True love / Michael Hauge
Finding universal themes / Jen Grisanti
Refining the idea / Stephen Rivele
The thematic line of dialogue / Barry Brodsky
The emotional outline / Karl Iglesias
Writing from experience, or, Grandma's teeth fell into the soup again / Paul Chitlik
Change your perspective / Michael Ray Brown
The union of opposites / Scott Anderson
From end to end: the creative compass / Michael Feit Dougan
CRAFTING SCENES. Rhythms, levels, and the proper respect / Michael Genet
Some things are better left unsaid / Colleen McGuinness
Self-knowledge availed us plenty / Tommy Swerdlow
What happens next? / Sara Caldwell
Scenes as concepts / Craig Kellum
Crafting the kick-ass scene / David Atkins
Visual storytelling / Larry Hama
What lies beneath / Allison Burnett
Write cinematic scenes / Stephen V. Duncan
I know what you're thinking: dialogue, context, subtext / T. J. Lynch
One-page character introduction / Valerie Alexander
Better than irony / Howard Allen
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. On creating character / Syd Field
Give me a dramatic truth or give me death! / Bill Johnson
Creating characters who work for you, not against you / Linda Cowgill
Approach character like an actor ... from the inside out! / Madeline DiMaggio
The character's trailer shot / Billy Mernit
The scene that doesn't exist / Christine Conradt
The key to charismatic characters / James Bonnet
Go ask Rosenkrantz / Glenn Gers
Character bones / David Skelly
The riddle of the sphinx / Marilyn R. Atlas
The character diary / Douglas J. Eboch
Getting inside your character's head by becoming her pen / Laura Scheiner
Life before fade in: / Pamela Gray
Loving and loathing: how to get into your characters / Richard Walter
Getting to know your character / Leslie Lehr
VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION. Find your inner actor / Amy Holden Jones
On dialoguing, the screenwriting anarchist's way / Peter Briggs
Nonverbal communication / Andrew Osborne
The big eavesdrop / Mark Evan Schwartz
The twitch: objects as emotions / William C. Martell
Funny faces: tips on writing animation / Aydrea Walden ten Bosch
False emotion / David Freeman
Building between the lines / Judy Kellem
Using metaphors in comedy / Steve Kaplan
Pick up a party line / Jennifer Skelly
Backward brainstorming / Pilar Alessandra
Hurt me, hurt me! (Oh, and help me make my script better)
The jewel case outline / Jim Strain
"Aloud,' he cried!" / Jayce Bartok
Screenwriters: stop shooting yourself in the foot! / Charles Deemer
The first ten pages / Ken Rotcop
Prose (and cons) / Billy Frolick
What to do when you're stuck on a creative problem / Peter Myers
Button it: the cure for overwriting / Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein
Finishing a script: the actor pass / Glen Mazzara
NOW WHAT? Creating the killer log line / Bill Lundy
What if it were your money? / Heather Hale
How to find and get an agent / Michele Wallerstein
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