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Shorts

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Hardly Hardy (Backup your work!)

On writing, Projects

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Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces

On writing, Projects

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A writer’s life – Screenwriting Software

On writing, Projects

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Is your Hero really the Hero?

On writing, Projects

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Yay! SMC Coen Brothers Storytelling Class starts today

On writing, Projects

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Michael Caine Heads To Interstellar | Movie News | Empire. Empire reporting that Sir Michael Caine has signed on for one of Nolan's next projects, and I can't be happier that it's sci-fi. Going to be very ...

Michael Caine Heads To Interstellar | Movie News | Empire

News

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Excellent addition to WhatCulture!'s "10 screenwriting lessons..." series, looking at Iron Man 3. Let the addition of Shane Blackisms ...

10 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn From Iron Man 3

On writing

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Loving Google's Saul Bass doodle for his 93rd birthday, May 7th, 2013! Should be on Google's Doodles page ...

In Search of Saul

Shiny!

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Sad news at the passing of Ray Harryhausen, the visionary stop-motion special effects wizard. I remember his creations vividly from my childhood; Medusa, Calibos, Kali, and the Cyclops, but it was his skeleton army in ...

Thank you, Ray Harryhausen

News

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Another amazing animation shown at SF Indie Fest, Irish anime in Evelyn Mcgrath's "Here to Fall". When a girl receives a call from her father she is set on a frantic journey through a chaotic world. Only the ...

Stunning animation in “Here to Fall”

Films

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Shave it from 3DAR on Vimeo. A cautionary tale! Caught this surreal animation at the SF Indie Fest - utterly ...

Shave it!

Films

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  Exclusive: The World Premiere of a "Noble" Endeavor from the Fringe Family. John Noble is back in our lives in a grand way as the star of Friend, a beautifully emotional short film teeming with the Fringe DNA. ...

Beautiful, simple, visual storytelling, in”Friend”.

Films

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Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data - NYTimes.com. Interesting comments on the use of statistical-story-telling in Hollywood. On the one hand I'm happy that my "targeting demon" horror action project ...

Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data – NYTimes.com

On writing

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"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is." via Queen of the Iron Sands.   Loved Scott's "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and looking forward to the third installment in the Gentlemen Bastards ...

Queen of the Iron Sands

Reading list

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Great article with Louis C.K. in April's Rolling Stone. Stand out quote for me*: When it's time to write, I have one computer that has no ability to get on the Internet... if you put a couple of moves between you ...

Moments of Agitation…

On writing

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...because sometimes you just have to! Stop procrastinating. Stop insisting on the perfect. Start. Learn. Iterate. Most importantly: Take the risk. Thanks ...

Just start!

On writing