Practical Screenwriting | Tony Tost | Substack

a few stray thoughts before I start posting even less than usual

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Take 'em or leave 'em, here are my current core thoughts about the practical art of writing scripts

Jan 24

...so you have to figure out how to hide information as something else

Nov 20, 2021

how NYPD Blue & pro wrestling helped me get my lead character over with the audience

Aug 31, 2021

...and why they mean everything to a non-established writer.

Aug 15, 2021

a conversation w/ Matt Conner of The Resistance

Jul 27, 2021

or, how to avoid an eternal writerly adolescence

Jul 7, 2021

Stubbornly exploring the emotional vibrancy of the human animal while working in the industry's emotion-flattening storytelling machine

Jul 2, 2021

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