I have some stories for you to look at that aren't NEW, but they were new to me and possibly…
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When you book an acting job (or really, I should say when you book a commercial, as those are the…
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Even though it's pretty well known among TSL readers that I hate everything. It's not often that a movie can…
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Screenwriting uses a lot of very specific terminology: inciting incident, lock-in, obligatory scene, and planting & payoff... to name a…
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It was a Saturday night. The kids were asleep, and I heard my wife whisper, "Come to bed." It was…
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It's true. Screenwriting – over all other forms of creative writing – is bound by rules: from format and structure…
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I had just completed the Graduate Screenwriting Program at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I remember at the time still…
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You know you’ve done it: fallen for that person and thought that we cannot possibly be with anyone else. All…
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There's something poetic about The American opening next to Machete, Robert Rodriguez's latest explosion of cheeky violence. And Machete is…
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It was an August funeral. And that means hot and humid, with mosquitoes the size of basketballs. I flew into…
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