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Writing Advice
Lesson from the film festival 1: finish your movie
This should be obvious, right? Right? You should finish the thing before putting it out there. Who would do such a thing? Well… If I had a dollar for every time I had to get my heart broken by a compelling film that got interrupted by a card that said something along the lines of…Read more
Editing From the Bottom Up
One of the most important pieces of writing advice I heard from a fellow student at Full Sail: Edit from the bottom up. This means scrolling down to the bottom of the document and reading it, essentially, backwards, looking for grammar mistakes along the way. We all think that our scripts and prose just flow…Read more
Prepare Thyself: Plotting to Dominate the Zero Draft Thirty Challenge
Zero Draft Thirty is a fun, rewarding experience… until it isn’t. The easiest way to ensure that your ZD30 is a success is to plot everything out in advance. When you’re writing a large chunk of text over a long period, the burnout comes swift and it comes hard. Don’t try and make it more…Read more
If I don’t care about the character, the story is meaningless.
–Dean Koontz
The 1, 2, 7, 14 Formula
On the Go Into the Story blog, I found a really good bit of advice that I’m going to work on folding into my writing habits. It’s called the 1, 2, 7, 14 Formula and it’s split into four parts: read one script a week, watch two movies a week, write seven pages a week,…Read more