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**interviews:
Alan Ball (Screenwriter, Coproducer: "American Beauty") [amazon.com interview] "..you have to have a deep and fundamental acceptance of mortality to really be able to see what's beautiful in life, because beauty and truth are inextricably connected. That's not a particularly original thought, but a lot of stuff in the script is really instinctive."
Charlie Kaufman writer of "Being John Malkovich" [indieWIRE]
Viki King creativity consultant; author: "How To Write A Movie In 21 Days - The Inner Movie Method"
Anne Meredith : screenwriter: "Bastard Out of Carolina"; "Losing Chase" // "Writers tend to see their people, their characters, moving in real time. So it isn't that big of a difference for me between writing fiction and screenplays. The only real difference is the structure of the writing, and it's actually kind of liberating to have a structure imposed on you. It's more freedom than less." [from interview]
Elisa Rothstein: creator, producer of TV series "Women: Stories of Passion"
Linda Seger script consultant, seminar leader, author of five books
Caroline Thompson: director and screenwriter: "Buddy" etc.
American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past by Jamie Allen //"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time." Alan Ball, 'American Beauty' screenwriter
Box Office Bombs - Moving the Hollywood screenwriting business to the Internet has become a long soap opera. [Business 2.0 Sept12.00]
Get Discovered.com [Wired News Report] "Writers vying for eyeballs in Hollywood or on Broadway will soon have another forum for being discovered."
The Making of a Hollywood Film - A Guide for Screenwriters by Elizabeth English
The Net Effect on Moviemaking [Wired mag.] "The movie isn't about email. But Poor White Trash will be the debut of a writing team that owes its existence to email."
Pitch Your Dream to a Star by Christina Hamlett "Explore every possible avenue. Don't wait for Hollywood to come to you."
Psychologist Helps Screenwriters Unravel Their Own Inner Scripts - By Patricia Ward Biederman
Psychologist Robert Maurer tries to teach his writers to embrace fear, instead of being paralyzed by it, and to reach out to others for comfort. He also tries to immunize them against the rejection that is an almost daily feature of their professional lives. What really hurts, he argues, is not the rejection itself, but the tape that plays in the rejectee's head telling them what a jerk they are. ... Sometimes success, not failure, prompts writers to seek Maurer out. He has seen successful writers suddenly start abusing spouses, squandering their money, dumping longtime associates (especially agents), abusing drugs and alcohol and, perhaps worst of all, stop writing.
Screenwriters Score Successes Online by Jenna Glatzer "The online screenwriting community has had plenty to cheer about lately; finally, we're beginning to see direct evidence that the dream of selling a screenplay via the Internet is within reach."
Story Alchemy by James Bonnet
Striking gold in tinseltown by Carol Tucker "Many screenwriters spend years moonlighting as waiters or pizza deliverers before they get their big break.When and if they do sell that first script, it's considered an aberration to earn more than $100,000 for it. But two recent graduates of USC's Master of Professional Writing Program beat the odds, selling their first screenplays to major studios for princely sums."
TV is a man's world, but... What Do Women Writers Want? by Susan Littwin "A good deal has been written about the 'culture of difference.' Women view the world differently; they laugh at different places, shed tears more freely, and at times just seem to be wired differently. So how do they fare writing for television, a field whose executives--and critics--are mostly men? Do women writers feel like a cultural minority, dismissed or discounted by those in power?"
Women Only by Patricia Eliot Tobias "Cari Beauchamp and Bridget Terry's Without Lying Down documents female screenwriters' tragedies and triumphs."
Writer's Block - The sequel by Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFCC (From the May 2001 issue of "Written By") "My first column in Written By, more than five years ago, was about writer's block. I've thought a lot about this problem since then and have learned a lot more from working with my writer clients, so I decided it might be worth another look."
Zen & the Art of Screenwriting by Don Vasicek
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Absolute Write
"If you are interested in freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, non-fiction, comic book writing,
greeting cards, poetry, or-- well, you get the idea-- you're in the right place."Act One: Writing for Hollywood
"...a month-long, writing intensive program, sponsored by Inter-Mission. Its purpose is to prepare Christian screenwriters
who are interested in more than just the next big sell -- writers committed to a Christian world-view who have the talent
and professional skills to translate this spirit to the screen."alt.screenwriters monthly print and Web column
CineStory
"a national non-profit screenwriter's organization that works in depth with emerging screenwriters to hone their craft
and help them find alternative access to the screen. We form both local and national partnerships with other film,
television and arts-supporting entities to create programs and events for both scriptwriters and the buyers of their projects.
Our mission is to create a sustaining, nurturing community of writers who understand the professional demands of the craft,
who can express their own voices through the medium, and who are trained to be collaborators with other filmmakers."EAS Screenplay, Teleplay, Series and Literary Services
Hollywood-based story analyst Elizabeth Stevens offers services for film, television and publishing executives,
and for individual writers nationwide. Services include professional coverage and critique for screenplays, teleplays,
series treatments and pilots, books and manuscripts, development notes, scene breakdowns and more.Echo Theater Company [Studio City, CA]
"a group of actors, writers, directors, and producers dedicated to developing and presenting the work of playwrights at any and all levels."Hollywoodlitsales.com - spec screenplay site
Ken Rotcop - Pitchmart and Screenwriting Workshops [San Fernando Valley]
Mermaid7seas Productions
"a reading service for screenwriters. We edit, give Hollywood studio-style coverage and critiques to help you
get your screenplay ready to submit to film festivals, screenplay competitions and to readers at literary agencies,
film studios and production companies..."Project Greenlight
"Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Miramax Films & TV, and HBO ... announced
the first 'Greenlight' contest September 25, 2000 through October 22, 2000, during which any American
citizen 18 years or older can submit their screenplay electronically... The winner of the contest - who will
be announced on March 1, 2001 - will get to direct the film based on their screenplay."Scenario, The Magazine of Screenwriting Art
Screenmancer.com | Screenwriters & Playwrights | Screenwriting Help
Scribbling Women
"a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast.
This site provides classroom resources for teaching and learning the rich tradition of American literature by women."Sherwood Oaks Experimental College
SmartScript
"the screenplay analysis service by and for Mensans! ... Now you've got a great script. But no one in Hollywood will read it! Or if they do, they don't understand it -- it's too original, too smart, too... different. But you don't want to change it, because that's what makes it great. What to do?"Sunset Script
Sunset Script offers screenplay coverage and analysis, pitch contests, festivals, script reading, screenplay contests, entertainment industry networking and Hollywood insider news for advanced screenwriters.TriggerStreet.com
".. filmmaker and screenwriter's community.. for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and unique talent.
Based on the principles of creative excellence, it provides industry access and exposure to help build the careers
of notable new filmmakers and screenwriters of our day."
// also see excerpts from interview with site founder Kevin Spacey on page: screenwriting / playwriting : page 1Women's Image Network
"producer of the WINFEMME FILM FESTIVAL and the WINFEMME MONTHLIES - accepts three distinct categories of films, videos and scripts, short, documentary and/or features. BOTH men and women filmmakers and/or screenwriters are encouraged to apply."Writers At Work
"founded by author, editor, and long-time writing instructor Terry Wolverton to provide a space in which writers
stretch the imagination, strengthen their craft, produce new work, fulfill their goals and build. ... Workshops are
currently offered in short fiction and creative nonfiction, the novel, screenwriting, and poetry at beginning,
intermediate, and advanced levels."Writers Script Network
"We specialize in matching industry people (producers, directors, representatives, etc.) with screenwriters and scripts."
**software:
Dramatica Pro [reviewer:] "It is so wonderfull because it doesn´t write a script for you. Dramatica collects your ideas and while it does that you get thousands of new ideas. There´s nothing more because there shouldn´t be. It helped me to think and to give my last screenplay´s characters much more depth than I ever expected and the fascinating thing is that you do all that by yourself. Even if you are a very experienced script writer it can never hurt to run your final draft through Dramatica."
Final Draft 6.0 "I've been a Final Draft user for several years now, since their first Windows release. While every screenwriting program screams in their ads that more people use their software than any other screenwriting program, I can say from the Hollywood professionals I have met over the years, the majority truly use Final Draft. I have been to their corporate office and dealt with their service department, and this company is a class act. ... For those would-be television writers, Final Draft also comes with templates which are preformatted in the style of some of the biggest TV shows on TV (ER, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Malcolm In The Middle, South Park), for free." [review by filmjerk.com/screenwriting.html]
Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 [reviewer:] 'If you're even thinking about screenwriting, buy this! I almost cried when I started using it - it's simply magnificent. If you know how much a pain "formatting" scripts is, you'll cry with joy, too. The inventors of this software have made writing scripts as easy as writing a letter to someone. It's simplicity makes it possible, no - a sheer delight- to create as you write in correct screen format.'
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Barton Fink
[amazon.com review:] "... gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but his desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds himself holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost immediately afflicted with writer's block..."~ ~ ~
**books
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Diana Ossana - co-writer of “Brokeback Mountain”
I think the thing that startled me the most was the emotions the story [by Annie Proulx] made me feel.
It affected me as a woman, and I felt it would surely affect anyone else, no matter what their sexual orientation. The feelings are universal - love, loss, pain, regret.
Through the centuries, people haven't changed in their wants and needs and desires.
Diana Ossana - producer and co-writer with Larry McMurtry of screenplay of “Brokeback Mountain” - quotes from Focus Features Production Notes
photo by Michael Caulfield / WireImage
> book: Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay -- by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaAlan Ball. American Beauty: The Shooting Script
Marcie Begleiter. From Word To Image: Storyboarding And The Filmmaking Process
"In this storyboarding book written directly for writers and directors, Begleiter explains how to use different skills to create sketches, thumb-nails and diagrams which convey movements, perspective and angles required to create feature, TV, and interactive projects. It includes many visuals, some never seen before from filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, George Roy Hill and Cecil B. DeMille. Begleiter, a Los Angeles-based writer, artist and educator, specializes in pre-visualization and has worked in the film, TV, and interactive industries. She has had many seminars and workshops for filmmakers and artists involved in visual storytelling, making visual communication accessible." [review from animationmagazine.net]K. A. Berney. Contemporary Women Dramatists
James Bonnet. Stealing Fire from the Gods : A Dynamic New Story Model for Writers and Filmmakers
[from author site:] In the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, James Bonnet also explores the connection between great stories and the creative unconscious source of a great stories real power and meaning, and the significance that connection has for writers and other storymakers.Sara Caldwell & Marie-Eve Kielson. So You Want To Be A Screenwriter: How to Face the Fears and Take the Risks
This book pretty much lives up to its title, and is extremely appropriate for anyone starting out as a screenwriter. It could also prove inspirational for those in the trade who get stuck, rejected or burned out. Using writers from wide-ranging backgrounds, the authors set out to prove that neither age, race, sex, nor geography should dissuade anyone from screenwriting. At the same time, they work to dispel hopes of instant wealth, fame and glamour. Writers are also tapped for their collective wisdom on survival and success strategies. The most striking example of perseverance paying off is the case of Adam Rifkin, who wrote 29 scripts without a sale. The thirtieth was Mouse Hunt. Rifkin is now considered one of the most prolific and successful writers in Hollywood. Although well-organized, the books tends to be repetitive. As there are few books specializing in the emotional rigours of screenwriting and overcoming writer's block, this one could prove useful during those dark times which come to us all. [Writers Guild of Canada review]Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Cameron Crowe. Almost Famous [screenplay]
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck. Good Will Hunting : A Screenplay
Alexis Greene. Women Who Write Plays : Interviews With Contemporary American Dramatists
Susan Bullington Katz. Conversations with Screenwriters
[reader:] "Katz is a screenwriter talking to screenwriters about writing; she asks questions from the perspective of an insider and gets real answers as opposed to the surfacey stuff you tend to get in shorter newspaper interviews. My favorite? Probably the slightly testy interview with Mike Leigh talking about how he used improvisational input from his cast in creating SECRETS AND LIES. There isn't an ounce of fat in this book. Smart, useful stuff."Josh Levine. David E. Kelley : The Man Behind Ally McBeal
Helena Lumme. Screenwriters : America's Storytellers in Portrait "salutes the men and women who have created hundreds of America's most beloved films. For the first time in the history of the much-documented film industry, this landmark book celebrates - in spectacular photographs and in the screenwriters' own unforgettable words - 47 of the film world's best writers including 18 Academy Award winners and 36 nominees for Best Screenplay."
Robert Mckee Story: Substance, Structure, Style,& the Principles of Screenwriting
Dennis Palumbo Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
Elaine Partnow. The Female Dramatist : Profiles of Women Playwrights from Around the World from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Skip Press. Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting
Ken Rotcop, James K. Shea. The Perfect Pitch : How to Sell Yourself and Your Movie Idea to Hollywood
Linda Seger Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters
"In any creative endeavor, a knowledge of craft by itself, no matter how sound or thorough, is simply not sufficient to allow for the creation and growth of truly original work. While craft may provide structural tools, it does not address the most basic and universal element of all artistic work-the creative process. Designed not just to awaken creativity but to teach the process of being a creative thinker..."Wallace Shawn My Dinner With Andre "The world of my imagination was becoming a prison... the real world, with its bounteous profusion of fascinating everyday-ness, was lying resplendent outside the gates, winking at me, beyond my grasp. I had generously shown on the stage my interior life as a raging beast, but my exterior life as a mediocre human and dilettante of normal intelligence remained unchronicled. And although my conscious, rational self had cried for expression for years, my unconscious self still kept a brutal grip on my pen. I knew -- I knew -- that beneath my work's primeval, hysterical façade, there was a calm little writer in an armchair just waiting to burst forth..."
J. Michael Straczynski The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
Thom Taylor. The Big Deal : Hollywood's Million-Dollar Spec Script Market
Robert Towne. Chinatown and the Last Detail: 2 Screenplays
Richard Walter Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television
Richard Walter. The Whole Picture : Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood
Richard Walter. Escape from Film School (fiction)
"The chairman of UCLA's film- and television-writing program debuts with (what else?) the story of a hapless film student who stumbles into fortune and, eventually, modest fame. Queens-born Stuart Thomas is fleeing the Vietnam-era draft when he bursts into the University of Southern California's Department of Cinema in August of 1966. He's just looking for a place to hide, but he winds up with a student deferment and work on a student-made porn film." // "Sassy, savvy, and super-quick, Richard Walter's mind is a pleasure to follow in any context, and his perspective on the biz only heightens the fun!" -- [from Kirkus review by screenwriter Ron Bass]Brooke A. Wharton. The Writer Got Screwed (But Didn't Have To) : A Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Industry
Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe. Conversations With Wilder
[The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Kerr:] "... devoted to fascinating and detailed discussions of the work, with ... Wilder dispensing wise little jewels that add up to an inspired manual on how to write and direct a film."Dana Williams. Contemporary African American Female Playwrights
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