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πŸ‘» #229 - Warnings from your future

Won't someone please think of the children?

πŸ«‚πŸͺ¦ #228 - Meetings and Partings

Per-Screen Average

🎁 #227 - It's A Gift

Can the hero be in every scene?

Writers need actors

#226 - "I learned it from you, Dad!"*

Reference and Parody

#225 - Try to Imagine a Better World

πŸ”˜ #224 - Concern, Influence, and Control

πŸ—³οΈ #223 - The Race is On

πŸ”ͺ #222 - Sometimes they come back

πŸͺ¦ #221 - They said the house had good bones

πŸ‘» House-sitting for ghosts

πŸ“¦ #220 - Trapped!

Long takes and calculated decluttering

☠️ #219 - Death is coming (look busy)

It's franchises all the way down

🐣 The sky is not falling

⌚️ #218 - The Time is Right (Now)

Selling a script, but holding on to the characters

🧟 #217 - We're not using the "Z" word.

Writer/Director Disagreements

πŸ“° #216 - As you already know...

πŸ“Ί TV in movies

#215 - Not Connecting

Making Christian movies

πŸ₯Έ #214 - Who do they think they are?

πŸ“‹ Assistants' Advice to Showrunners

😜 #213 - Resisting Toxic Normalcy

🎟️ What job should I beg for?

πŸ‘· #212 - Don't Quit Your Day Job

πŸ’² Good day jobs for writers (and others)

πŸšΆβ€βž‘οΈβ›°οΈ #211 - Many Paths Up The Mountain

πŸ–– Wagon train to the stars

🀣πŸ₯Š #210 - Punches and Punchlines

πŸ€πŸ•΅οΈ Silent Evidence

πŸͺ¨ #209 - Make Your Own Meaning

πŸ—πŸš™ Inciting Incident: Koo Koo Roo Edition

πŸ₯Έ #207 - That's What THEY Want You To Think

Can you become a screenwriter outside of LA?

πŸ’° Some first thoughts on fifth

🐾 No animals were harmed in the making of this newsletter

πŸ‡ On Alice in Wonderland

β€½ #205 - How much we don't know

😢 On creating emotion

πŸ”„ #204 - Let's circle back to that

🀫 Some unspoken thing

πŸ₯Ό 203 - The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

πŸ’½ Making the geek movie

πŸ“‹ #202 - Standard Procedures

You are the host of your own talk show

πŸͺ’ #201 - The problems are all connected

🩳 Can my script be as short as Somewhere?

πŸ¦„ #200 - Aaaaaaand why should I care?

πŸŽ₯ Eyes on the camera

βš”οΈπŸ’» #199 - Hack and Backslash

πŸ™ƒ Making unnecessary and possibly horrible changes

🧜 #198 - But Daddy I Love Him!

πŸ“¬ Quick Answers

⏳ #197 - Legacy Thinking

πŸ€”πŸ’­ Writing about what you don't know

πŸͺ€ #196 - It's A Trap!

How do you become successful?

πŸ˜‚ Is this thing on?

πŸͺ¨πŸ—‘️ #195 - Sword In The Stone

πŸ’ The Grimm side of marriage

#194 - Choosing the voice

☎️ How to handle a phone meeting

🎸 #193 - A brief musical interlude

βœ‚οΈπŸŽžοΈ Does the editor read the script?

🏝️ #192 - Finding an Oasis

Should I write a novel or a script?

#191 - It Feels Like Nothing Happens

Quitting, and the age question

🫣 #190 - I Need an Adult

Finding confidence

πŸ’” #189 - Breaking up is hard to do

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Should we write together?

πŸ§’ #188 - "I remember when I was your age and I was coming of age."

😰 When should I panic?

🎞️ #187 - 2023 Oscar Nominees (Original Screenplay)

πŸ—―οΈ Stressing out in dialogue

🎞️ #186 - 2023 Oscar Nominees (Adapted Screenplay)

🧠 #185 - Selective Collective Memory

πŸ”₯ Burn it down

β˜ƒοΈ #184 - Cancel your plans

πŸ“–πŸ”€πŸŽ₯ The essentials of adaptation

πŸ›οΈ #183 - As seen on TV (or movies)

πŸͺœ What's the next step?