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If You’re A Writer, You Must Be Ready to Play God

Prepare yourself to win hearts and minds

4 min read4 days ago

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If You’re A Writer, You Must Be Ready to Play God

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Richard Walter
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Want To Be Outrageously Successful in Hollywood? Train as a Hack and a Whore

In other words, be more like Shakespeare

3 min readApr 30, 2024

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Want To Be Outrageously Successful in Hollywood? Train as a Hack and a Whore

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Richard Walter
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Moving Pictures

Here’s How to Query (and Not Query) a Hollywood Agent

Three examples

3 min readApr 10, 2024

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Here’s How to Query (and Not Query) a Hollywood Agent

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Richard Walter
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Moving Pictures

Real Truth Versus Reel Truth

Please don’t try to be true-to-life in movies

4 min readApr 3, 2024

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Real Truth Versus Reel Truth

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Richard Walter
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Moving Pictures

For Writers, There’s Something Worse Than Dying of Encouragement

It’s even worse that dying of criticism and public failure

4 min readMar 28, 2024

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For Writers, There’s Something Worse Than Dying of Encouragement

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Richard Walter
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Zorro’s Chiropractor

My favorite writing assignment

9 min readMar 27, 2024

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Zorro’s Chiropractor

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Richard Walter
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Oscars, Schmoscars

Art is not the place for debate and discourse

3 min readMar 19, 2024

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Oscars, Schmoscars

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Richard Walter
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Moving Pictures

Adapting the Novel for the Screen

Part II

3 min readMar 11, 2024

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Adapting the Novel for the Screen

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Richard Walter
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Adapting the Novel for the Screen

With my new novel Deadpan now available to order online at Amazon and, best of all, directly from its courageous publisher Heresy Press, I…

5 min readMar 4, 2024

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Adapting the Novel for the Screen

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Richard Walter
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Moving Pictures

A Letter from Jack London On What Matters to Writers

It’s not prose, grammar, or spelling

4 min readFeb 26, 2024

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A Letter from Jack London On What Matters to Writers

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Richard Walter

Richard Walter

Screenwriter, bestselling author, and 40 years leadership @ UCLA’s prestigious screenwriting program. Get 40 lessons from 40 years: richardwalter.com/newsletter

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