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June 21, 2017

First Draft: Break Tired Screenwriting Conventions By Embracing the Heroine’s – Not Hero’s – Journey

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June 16, 2017

First Draft: Will You Give Your Audience a Guided Tour of Your Script’s World, Or Throw Them In Head First?

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June 15, 2017

First Draft: Grab Viewers By the Eyeballs With Your Screenplay Title

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May 22, 2017

First Draft: Five Ways to Craft the Midpoint of Your Screenplay

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May 16, 2017

First Draft: Cover Your (Screenwriting) Ass With These Rules For Writing Valuable Script Coverage

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May 11, 2017

First Draft: Seeing Is Conceiving. Build a Blueprint to Work Visuals Into Your Screenplay

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April 26, 2017

First Draft: So You’ve Accepted a Script Assignment. Here Are Seven Ways to Rise to Its Challenges

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April 25, 2017

First Draft: Rewrites Aren’t the Only Way to Improve Your Screenplay. Try Rearranging It Instead

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April 21, 2017

First Draft: Allow Your Characters to Introduce Themselves With These Seven Ways to Reveal Their Names

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March 6, 2017

First Draft: Wield These Wordsmithing Weapons to Beat Down Screenwriting Clichés

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March 2, 2017

First Draft: What Avatar’s Pandora Can Teach You About Screenwriting Structure

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January 30, 2017

A Duel in a Different Form: Tips for Choreographing and Executing a Car Chase From the Director of The Chase

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January 19, 2017

First Draft: Stay True to Your First Idea to Avoid Killing Characters With Too Much Plot

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January 13, 2017

First Draft: Make the World Stand Still Even As It’s Moving Fast By Using Logarithmic Time in Your Screenplay (Video)

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January 12, 2017

First Draft: Start and End With a Bang When Writing Your Screenplay’s First and Last Visuals

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January 10, 2017

First Draft: Give Your Characters Well-Defined Paths and Choices and Your Audience Can Believe Anything

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January 4, 2017

First Draft: Living In the Past With Flashbacks and Monologues

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January 2, 2017

First Draft: Are Your Screenplay’s Characters Runners Toward a Finish Line, or Gladiators in an Arena?

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November 15, 2016

First Draft: When Is It OK For Your Script to Use On-the-Nose Dialogue?

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November 8, 2016

First Draft: Build Your Rewriting Chops With This Case Study From The Hateful Eight

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November 1, 2016

First Draft: Understand The Humility Arc To Allow Your Story’s Heroes To Succeed

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October 25, 2016

First Draft: Crafting Supervillains by Pushing Your Antagonists Over the Edge

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October 21, 2016

Three Trembling Cities, From Scene to Screen: The Process of Bringing a Scene To Life

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October 17, 2016

First Draft: The Most Common Mistake in Spec Scripts (And Four Ways to Avoid Making It)

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