Author (The Protagonist's Journey), Screenwriter (K-9, Alaska), Associate Professor (DePaul University film school), Host (GoIntoTheStory.com)
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More than EVER, we need good storytellers. Put a human face on The Other. Shed light on a Deeper Truth. Engender Empathy. Fan the flames of Hope. Motivate people to Act. Make us Laugh. Make us Cry. Make us Thrilled. Make us Think. But mostly, make us feel our Shared Humanity.
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Scott Myers retweeted
Honestly this is the ONLY advice that matters…
Write a script. If no one cares, write another one. Repeat until you’re dead.
As a screenwriter, you cannot control who buys what ... who green lights what ... who says "yes" ... who says "no" ... who calls you back ... who ghosts you. The only thing you can control is this: Your writing. Pen. Paper. Fingers. Keyboard. They can't take that away from you.
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Arthur Miller: “There really are no characters in plays. There are relationships.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/o… #writing
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Caroline Thompson: “I'm not romantic at all about the creative process. I feel like a plow horse--just one foot in front of the other.” #screenwriting
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Judy Blume: “There are no hard and fast rules for writing, and no secret tricks, because what works for one person doesn’t always work for another. Everybody is different. That’s the key to the whole business of writing — your individuality.” #writing
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As a screenwriter, you cannot control who buys what ... who green lights what ... who says "yes" ... who says "no" ... who calls you back ... who ghosts you. The only thing you can control is this: Your writing. Pen. Paper. Fingers. Keyboard. They can't take that away from you.
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I'm not saying Jeanne, Sadie, and I plumbed the depths of Hollywood script acquisitions from 1991 to 2025, and discovered heretofore unknown secrets to empower your spec scripts ... but we came close! Thanks, J and S, for a fun hour of informative jibber jabber!
If @SadieKDean and I could talk with @GoIntoTheStory all day, every day, I swear we would.
I mean, who wouldn't?
Dive into Scott's insane genius on spec script deals.
New @recklesscr8tive live!
recklesscreativespodcast.com…
#scriptchat #screenwriting
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Enroll in my Core series on eight screenwriting principles. Each week, a new lecture. Plus, access to my weekly video series, live AMA Zoom sessions, and more. It's my new Go Into the Story Patreon program: Film School on a Microbudget. patreon.com/GoIntoTheStory/p… #screenwriting
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Go Into The Story interview: My conversation with Hollywood writer Jeffrey Lieber whose movie credits include Tangled and Tuck Everlasting, and TV credits include NCIS: New Orleans and Lost. gointothestory.blcklst.com/g… #screenwriting
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Chris Terrio: “A good screenplay gives us memorable dialogue; a great one, memorable silences. It takes a writer a long time to figure out what to write; it takes longer to figure out what not write.” #screenwriting
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Lawrence Block: "One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly." #writing
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And it’s almost certain those moments reveal something about the characters… which is important in enhancing the audience’s emotional involvement with the story.
Every time I watch old films I noticed this more and more. A shot, or a quick scene, or a moment, or anything that just doesn't NEED to be there for narrative reasons but the filmmaker added it in for whatever reason he/she chose to and THIS adds so much to the cinema. Yep.
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Glad to hear you’re benefiting from the book. That’s was my hope in pulling it together. Same motivation when I launched Go Into The Story over 18 years ago. Insight, information, and inspiration - for free!
Scott Myers is a true mensch. I got a little weepy when I read at the end that he was doing this for free as a pay it forward. I have already learned so much from it. Thank you Scott!
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Scott Myers retweeted
Werner Herzog says he wrote the screenplay for his new film Bucking Fastard in just five days.
“I never spent more than a week writing a screenplay. The screenplay for the film I shot here, Bucking Fastard, was written in 5 days.”
He added that his wife was his witness.
Herzog also has a strict NO STORYBOARDS and NO VIDEO VILLAGE rule.
“Storyboards are for cowards,” he told the Directors Guild, “for those who lack imagination.”
He has never allowed a video village on his sets and says he has never once done a reshoot.
“It is not even in my dictionary.”
And Herzog does NOT discuss motivation with his actors.
“I do not like to have long conversations with actors about motivation and what their childhood traumas might have been.”
He calls it “Actors Studio nonsense.”
And if a scene fails five times? He rewrites the dialogue on the spot in about twenty seconds.
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I did a 45-part series exploring Stephen King's wonderful book "On Writing". Here you go! gointothestory.blcklst.com/s…
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Garry Marshall: "There are three drafts of a screenplay. The first is for the studio, when they say, 'We like this.' The second, you write so the actors read it. The third is, 'You can’t shoot this screenplay on this budget.' You’ve got to rewrite it." gointothestory.blcklst.com/s…
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