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Psalms For The End Of The World

Psalms For The End Of The World

A diner waitress on the run with a man wrongly accused of murder discovers the true nature of reality – and how scores of lives are interconnected across space and time by love, grief, and quantum entanglement.

2022

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Free Screenwriting Resources to Help with Your Next Script

A compilation of the most useful tools I’ve provided for aspiring and emerging screenwriters to challenge themselves and improve their…

Jun 16, 2023

Free Screenwriting Resources to Help with Your Next Script

Jun 16, 2023

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Screenwriting Tales from My Life in Hollywood

These essays about my career in the US film/TV business will hopefully leave aspiring screenwriters better prepared than I was.

Apr 15, 2023

Screenwriting Tales from My Life in Hollywood

Apr 15, 2023

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My Artist-on-Artist Conversations with Celebrated Screenwriters

After 15 years as a professional film/TV screenwriter, I’ve started talking with old and new friends about who they are and how they create

Jul 23, 2023

My Artist-on-Artist Conversations with Celebrated Screenwriters

Jul 23, 2023

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A Tale of Two (Unlikely) Heroes: ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Alien’

By challenging traditional narratives, two very different films helped to redefine who could be American action heroes

16h ago

A Tale of Two (Unlikely) Heroes: ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Alien’

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What Akira Kurosawa Watched (Or: 100 Ways to Expand Your Cinematic Mind)

And if not expand it, at least make your life a hell of a lot more interesting…

2d ago

What Akira Kurosawa Watched (Or: 100 Ways to Expand Your Cinematic Mind)

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In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration) — October 2024

31 moments of everyday beauty from this past month — photographed by readers and curated by me — to help inspire you on your journeys

5d ago

In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration) — October 2024

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This 100-Year-Old Silent Film Will Challenge Everything You Think You Know About Structure

‘The Big Parade’ is one of the first great anti-war films, but it’s also a perfect demonstration of ‘narrative mirroring’ in storytelling

Sep 30

This 100-Year-Old Silent Film Will Challenge Everything You Think You Know About Structure

Sep 30

Cole Haddon

Q&A: Writer-Director Kay Cannon Can Do Anything (So Back Off, World!)

The ‘Pitch Perfect’ filmmaker discusses her creative origins, storytelling craft, and making films/TV in an age of such profound adversity

Sep 27

Q&A: Writer-Director Kay Cannon Can Do Anything (So Back Off, World!)

Sep 27

Cole Haddon

John Steinbeck’s Six Tips to Good Writing

Let’s discuss the Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel laureate’s approach to his work

Sep 25

John Steinbeck’s Six Tips to Good Writing

Sep 25

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The Writing Cooperative

How to Make Art That Confronts the Darkness (Or Not)

10 filmmakers, authors, and comic book writers debate whether artists have any responsibility to tackle how completely shit everything is

Sep 22

How to Make Art That Confronts the Darkness (Or Not)

Sep 22

Cole Haddon

Cole Haddon

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Cole Haddon is probably writing right now. And drinking coffee -- want to buy him one? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/colehaddon

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