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How to Turn Your Friend’s Stupid Movie Ideas Into Gold

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Monday, March 08, 2010 in ArticlesFeatured ArticlesScript DevelopmentBusiness Tips • (0) CommentsPermalink

Please welcome the latest blogger to the ScriptShark family, Dwayne Alexander Smith.  Dwayne has sold four spec scripts and currently is working on adapting Jim Croce’s classic song, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, into an action comedy.

HOW TO TURN YOUR FRIEND’S STUPID MOVIE IDEAS INTO GOLD
Dwayne Alexander SmithScreenwriters get their ideas for movies from many sources.  I’ll spare you the obvious by not listing these sources. That’s not what this piece is about.  What I will do is reveal to you one of my favorite sources of inspiration.  By far, I have sold more material spawned by this source than by any other.  READ MORE.

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Up the Long Ladder

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 in ArticlesFeatured ArticlesScript DevelopmentBusiness Tips • (2) CommentsPermalink

Up the Long Ladder: The Structure of a TV Writing Department. READ MORE.

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Registration for our New York Business of Writing Workshop is now open

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Monday, March 01, 2010 in Screenwriting EventsNew York • (0) CommentsPermalink

Registration for our New York Business of Writing Seminar is now open! More details.

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Where Have All the Women Writers Gone

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 in (0) CommentsPermalink

An interesting follow up piece to our earlier article about Women writer's in this year's TV pilot season.  Click here for more.

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Get more opinion for less money

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 in (0) CommentsPermalink

Are you ready to get more commentary for less money?  Cilick here for more details.

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Weird feelings about “Life Scripts”

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 in ArticlesFeatured ArticlesScript CoverageScreenwriting Tips • (0) CommentsPermalink

I was on the set directing my movie Moll Flanders – which starred Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman - when John Watson, my partner in Trilogy, asked me, “How come none of your characters have mothers?” Read more.

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Business of Writing Workshop - LA

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in (0) CommentsPermalink

Registration for our Los Angeles Business of Writing Seminar is now open! In our day-long event, learn all about getting your script noticed and making the tough realities of a demanding industry.  For more information, click here.

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Being A Writer’s Assistant

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Thursday, February 11, 2010 in (1) CommentsPermalink

If you’re at all interested in writing for television, I’m going to guess that at some point you’ve read a blog post, been to a panel....MORE.

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Women Can’t Create and White Men Can’t Jump

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 in (0) CommentsPermalink

Special Thanks to Baseline Research for allowing us to cross-post this blog about Female Writers in the industry. 

I received several emails this past week pointing out the scarcity of women writers on the recent pilot pickups.  MORE.

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What Did You Say?

Posted by Jennifer Girling on Monday, February 08, 2010 in (0) CommentsPermalink

Writing good dialogue is a piece of cake.  Yea, right.  READ MORE.

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