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This is very cool, it’s a new review of Excess Baggage by Anthony Moretta on Out of the Gutter. Anthony even made me like the film better and I have a few reasons to have grievances with it, though, you know, it’s my baby even if it’s not quite as pretty a baby as a I wanted so I love it no matter what: CLASSIC FILM REVIEW: EXCESS BAGGAGE (1997):   Read More ...

      This is the hot new book trailer for The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, an AFW publication, book trailer created by the epically talented Christie LeBlanc of Trailer Works.      

  This is one of the most powerful monologues ever put on film.  It is from Jaws, Quint’s character played by Robert Shaw delivers “The Indianapolis Speech.”  Watch.  Listen. Learn. We will be studying it hard in Dialogue Writing.        

Join us for Indiechat 3/19 at 9pm EST! Topic: Screenplays March 19th, 2013 by Kate Tilton As many of you may know we took over the twitter chat #indiechat. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm EST. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify. This week on #indiechat Kate Tilton (@Froze8) will be will be hosting from the BiblioCrunch twitter account (@BiblioCrunch) with guest Max Adams (@CelluloidBlonde). Max   Read More ...

  High Concept Writing and Character Writing begin March 13.  One week left to register for those and then they will be closed to registration. CLICK HERE to register for March online classes.

This is a guest post from John Robert Marlow, author of  Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood: 1 PITCH, 3 ELEMENTS, 10 SECONDS Everyone wants to sell a story. Almost no one can. Part of the reason is just that: people try to sell stories. But few (okay, no) working professionals have time to listen to or read every story that comes through the   Read More ...

If you have not been watching the Banksy action on the book’s Going Banksy page you are missing out.  It is hilarious and fun.  Here are some shots from the Banksy action in Park City and Salt Lake City.

Construction is complete.  And no one went to the emergency room!  Yay! The big news is, class registration is now automated.  Instead of people having to email in via a form [which apparently was not working for a while no telling how long that was in play but sorry about that if you did not hear back from me your email got shredded by the bad internet fairy] you can   Read More ...

Aren’t you glad there are Do’s & Don’ts for surgeons?                           And for the Bomb Squad?                           And for pilots?                           Don’t you wish there were some for screenwriters?             Read More ...

Guerrilla Tactics:  Interview With Author & Screenwriter Max Adams ~ by Nancy Bilyeau In the middle of attempting to write my first screenplay, I bought a paperback called The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War, by Max Adams. It was a fast, smart read, very funny, with an insider’s wisdom about how to get off the ground as a screenwriter. Max, I learned, had   Read More ...

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, all book all the time. But if you just spent months of your life on a book pulling all nighters, you would kind of be all about the book too. And since this book helps you more than it helps me, get behind it. Jeesh. The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide is now available at Amazon on Kindle, at Barnes & Noble on Nook, at Kobo,   Read More ...