Getting Ideas

Raindance's Elliot Grove has kindly shared an excerpt from his book Raindance Writer's Lab: Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay" with us. Check it out in our Features section.

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Getting Ideas

Writing a screenplay is very hard. Writing a good screenplay involves a good amount of fortune, and a strong belief in the first biblical reference. But like everything else, I believe that there can be a plan. And with a good plan you stand a better chance of succeeding. The key to becoming a successful screenwriter is really very basic - get great ideas, write them down in a distinct personal style, circulate each finished script in the film community and as soon as one script is finished, start the next. If it is so basic, why isn't everyone doing it? Because writing a screenplay is difficult. Writing a truly great screenplay is very, very difficult.

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First Response

We have a new article on film criticism:

More often than not we know more about the film we are going to see than we need to. It leads to us being conservative in our choices and stops us from appreciating film's greatest pleasure: spontaneously responding to what is happening on the screen.

You never forget your first time...

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First Response

More often than not we know more about the film we are going to see than we need to. It leads to us being conservative in our choices and stops us from appreciating film's greatest pleasure: spontaneously responding to what is happening on the screen.

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