Dec 27 Love1 From the Desk of Richard Walter: Fire, Bloodshed, and Parking By Richard Walter Authors, Education, Mentoring, Screenwriting 101 It’s not an official faculty meeting, a former dean remarked at a UCLA film department gathering, until someone complains about…Read More
Aug 10 Love4 From the Desk of Richard Walter: A Final Solution to the Agent Problem By Richard Walter Main, Screenwriting 101 Writers love to gripe and kvetch about the army of deplorables in the movie business who discount, dismay, and disrespect…Read More
May 08 Love0 From The Desk of UCLA Screenwriting Chairman, Richard Walter: Standing Ovation By Richard Walter Main I’ve written from time to time of my fifteen minutes of fame – actually about five or ten years –…Read More
Mar 20 Love0 The Worst Thing About Hollywood By Richard Walter Blogs, Screenwriting 101 Sometimes producers working with writers-for-hire, that is, writers fulfilling a commissioned assignment, ask them to try out ideas that even…Read More
Dec 14 Love0 Copyright and Copywrong By Richard Walter Main At the time of this writing the Robert Plant/Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin copyright infringement trial is underway regarding the origins…Read More
Nov 08 Love0 Real vs. Reel By Richard Walter Screenwriting 101 In a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece Mark Oppenheimer writes (appropriately enough on July 4th) of symbolism run amok: he complains specifically…Read More
Aug 31 Love0 Two Questions I Never Answer By Richard Walter Main Surely I’m better known as a writing educator than a writer. All the same, after forty years and a half…Read More
Feb 17 Love0 Screenwriting: Predicting The Unpredictable By Richard Walter Main A letter arrived recently from Screenwriting Newsletter subscriber Ronald M. Sandgrund, a prominent Colorado attorney, law professor, and writer. (Full…Read More
Jan 07 Love0 Escape From Film School By Richard Walter Main Approximately thirty-five years ago I got an idea for a screenplay called Film School. I like to consider the script an ‘homage’…Read More
Oct 06 Love0 Editorial: My Favorite Film Critic By Richard Walter Main Even though I’m a screenwriter and film educator I rarely read movie reviews. Here and there I may peek at…Read More