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How to Write Dirty… and Ruin Movies

How to Write Dirty… and Ruin Movies

With apologies to the late standup comic icon Lenny Bruce, one of my heroes, whose timeless autobiography is entitled How to Talk Dirty and…
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Writers: Your Day Job Is Your Best Friend

Writers: Your Day Job Is Your Best Friend

You need provision for the vision
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The Most Important Word in the Screenwriting Business

The Most Important Word in the Screenwriting Business

Obviously, it has to do with money
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The Screenwriter as Crybaby

The Screenwriter as Crybaby

We have just one job and only we can do it
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Don’t Let Excellent Get in the Way of Good

Don’t Let Excellent Get in the Way of Good

Good is how you get great
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Three Hollywood Hoaxes That Are Holding Back Your Screenwriting Career

Three Hollywood Hoaxes That Are Holding Back Your Screenwriting Career

Ignore them at your peril
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A Screenplay Is Not a Pastrami Sandwich

A Screenplay Is Not a Pastrami Sandwich

It’s a commissioned watercolor painting
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Eight Principles to Make You a Bitter Writer

Eight Principles to Make You a Bitter Writer

That’s not a typo
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What Is the Point of Screenwriting?

What Is the Point of Screenwriting?

Indeed, what is the point of watching movies?
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How Much Research Should A Screenwriter Do?

How Much Research Should A Screenwriter Do?

Go with what appears to be true, even if it’s not true
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Onward Christian Screenwriters!

Onward Christian Screenwriters!

The point of screenplays and sermons are one and the same
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The Fast, the Furious, and the Foolhardy

The Fast, the Furious, and the Foolhardy

Does the Fast & Furious franchise promote violence and criminality?
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“It’s Not What You Know It’s Who You Know” is a Hollywood Hoax

“It’s Not What You Know It’s Who You Know” is a Hollywood Hoax

Insider film connections are a myth
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Can a Lame Idea Make a Great Movie?

Can a Lame Idea Make a Great Movie?

Absolutely — ideas are worthless
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You Have to Protect Your Writing Time Like a Warrior

You Have to Protect Your Writing Time Like a Warrior

It’s the only way to win the writing fight
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Six Ways to Demonstrate on Your Screenplay’s Cover That You Are an Amateur

Six Ways to Demonstrate on Your Screenplay’s Cover That You Are an Amateur

Don’t get yourself caught out for no reason
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How to Manipulate Hollywood Executives for Fun and Profit

How to Manipulate Hollywood Executives for Fun and Profit

A brief introduction to the Hydrant Effect and how to avoid it
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Don’t Spank the Writer!

Don’t Spank the Writer!

Tough love doesn’t work with art very often
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The Million-Dollar Maybe

The Million-Dollar Maybe

How indecision can create a wonderful film
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There’s No Success Like Failure

There’s No Success Like Failure

The key is to stay open to the surprises
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The Hoax Called “Genre”

The Hoax Called “Genre”

There’s no such thing as a kid’s movie
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How to Transform a Lame Screenplay Simply By Changing Your Scene Settings

How to Transform a Lame Screenplay Simply By Changing Your Scene Settings

Static vs. dynamic scene settings
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Is Setting Really That Important in Screenplays?

Is Setting Really That Important in Screenplays?

Are there things that are more important?
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My First Movie

My First Movie

The first movie I ever saw, at age 4, taught me one of screenwriting’s most important principles
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Real Truth Versus Reel Truth

Real Truth Versus Reel Truth

It’s not hypocrisy if it’s film fakery
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