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What I Look For When I'm Hiring
or, the one simple selfish question I ask myself during the interview process
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Let's Make Fun Action Movies Fun Again
or, let's stop making the movie version of an NBA all-star game
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One For Them, One For Me
one way of thinking practically about a screenwriting career
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How to Create a Great Lead Character
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The Revised and Expanded Script Principles of Tony Tost
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When do I stop writing scripts for free?
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Notes, Structure, & Avoiding Emotional Predictability
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What I learned from David Milch and/or Vince McMahon
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The Case for Non-Linearity
or, when to structure a story outside the bounds of linear time
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The Double-Concept Story Idea
or, what my more successful scripts have in common
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The script is finished. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's finished.
Oh shit, now I'm not so sure...
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John Wick's Secret Weapon...
or, how to give the audience something very new by offering them something very old
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Can a morally-decent, sane, grounded character still be dramatically interesting?
I'm intrigued by the difficulty of creating a morally decent yet dramatically compelling film character. Not a superhero, not a savior, not a saint…
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When to Establish. When to Explore.
...a small simple lesson I had to relearn through a test-screening...
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Why this story? Why now?
it's a bit of a cliche. it's also unavoidable.
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Practical Screenwriting
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