What's New?
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• Moving From Hack to Pro: Where are you and can you get there?
The podcast: YouTube
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• New series for May-June, 2021 about what producers, agents, and even contests look for in a story: What's the most important element in a story?
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• A career in communications Is it right for you?
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• If you haven't discovered the benefits of a Coverfly subscription for screenwriters Well, you should. Not affiliated with this Web site in any way, but I judge contests through it.
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• Pro: Pixar is one of the most successful storytellers They share their secrets in this free Khanacademy Youtube video series Links offsite.
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• New Disqus Comments sections now on new pages
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• Pro: What Vexes You? Write about it.
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• Pro: Professionals fail a lot Some things they fail at, and some they do very well
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| • Say It Visually. |
| • More What's New after the Author's Books section. (25 years of writing this Website for free.) |
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• How Does Feedback Help People?
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| • Would you like to review screenplays and movies? Following are guides for doing reviews:
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| • Eight steps to sparkling characters. What is it about a character that sparkles? Learn how to make them sparkle in Story Architecture. |
| • How To Write Visually. What is this thing called visual writing, and how do you do it? |
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• Nicholl Reader Judging Criteria
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• Communicating Effectively.Can we do it? (On OneSpiritResources.com site)
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• Putting Variety in Stories: Easier than it seems. Story architecture.
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• Should I write that? Story architecture.
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• What is the Most Important Element in Your Story? Story architecture.
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• Everything Communicates in a movie.
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| • Propaganda Oh, how are you deceived! Learn to recognize how others deceive and manipulate you, and get smarter than them, in this 10 part series on sister site One Spirit Resources. Stop polarization.
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| • Writing Comedy, 3 of 3 Length format for Writing comedy
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| • Writing Comedy, 2 of 3 Writing comedy one-liners
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| • Writing Comedy, 1 of 3 The highest art is 90% perspiration and 5% inspiration.
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| • How To Get People to Do Anything You Want. Dangerous communication. Are We Creating the World We Want?
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| • The writer's, director's, and editor's job - a step beyond "show don't tell". Writers and director's believe their job is to "tell a story in a visual medium." The following is a subtle shift, but often a very important one: "The writer and director's job is to understand what the audience wants or needs to see, and give that to them, so that they can imagine the story." - Dorian Cole. From The MSP Insider, on the Movie Stream Productions Web site.
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• Writing for the Market, on author's Movie Stream Productions:
Writing for the Market, and Loving It
Architecting a Story for the Market
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| • Conveying meaning through non-verbal action. A movie scene study for individuals and groups.
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| • Communicating the Message Effectively
Create drama better by learning the basics of effective communication. Whether in drama, speaking, or ministry, many of the principles of effective communication are the same - On sister site One Spirit Resources.com.
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