All posts tagged "First Draft"
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First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to the notion that novice screenwriters...
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First Draft: Put Audiences in Your Characters’ Shoes With These Seven Ways to Elicit Empathy in Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. How can screenwriters make audiences and readers care more about...
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First Draft: Ten Ways Screenwriters Can Sidestep Writing for Free
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “You have to pay your dues, right?” That’s what novice—and...
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First Draft: 10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Screenplay structure has nothing to do with mythology or saving...
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First Draft: 11 Anti-Heroes, and Ways to Develop Them In Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. How do writers craft protagonists that are engaging, compelling, and...
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First Draft: Five Criminally Underrated Elements of Successful Screenplays
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenplays. What if you could learn some X factor elements of...
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First Draft: Screenwriting Contests and Fellowships Every Writer Should Target in 2018
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What are the best screenwriting contests, competitions, and fellowships to...
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First Draft: Step Up Your Game With These Seven New Year’s Resolutions For Screenwriters
As we look ahead to this new year, now’s a good time to ask, what are your screenwriting goals? What are you going to do...
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First Draft: Here Are 20 of the Hottest Public Domain Properties For Screenwriters
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Hollywood has been obsessed with Intellectual Property (IP) for decades—but...
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First Draft: What’s It Like to See Your Script Produced By Hollywood? Here’s How This Screenwriter Made It Happen
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Seeing your screenplay produced is the ultimate goal for every...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...