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practical screenwriting advice from an outsider working in an insider industry
By Tony Tost · Launched a year ago
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Put Up or Shut Up Time
a few stray thoughts before I start posting even less than usual
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The Revised and Expanded Script Principles of Tony Tost
Take 'em or leave 'em, here are my current core thoughts about the practical art of writing scripts
Tony Tost
Jan 24
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Information is the Death of Drama
...so you have to figure out how to hide information as something else
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Nov 20, 2021
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What I learned from David Milch and/or Vince McMahon
how NYPD Blue & pro wrestling helped me get my lead character over with the audience
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Aug 31, 2021
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The first five to ten pages...
...and why they mean everything to a non-established writer.
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Aug 15, 2021
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How I deal with writer's block (by not believing in it)
a conversation w/ Matt Conner of The Resistance
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Jul 27, 2021
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You Are Responsible for the Quality of Notes You Receive
or, how to avoid an eternal writerly adolescence
Tony Tost
Jul 7, 2021
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Notes, Structure, & Avoiding Emotional Predictability
Stubbornly exploring the emotional vibrancy of the human animal while working in the industry's emotion-flattening storytelling machine
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Jul 2, 2021
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