Screenwriting From Iowa

“I definitely have a thing from being an executive and reading so many scripts that I’m always afraid of kind of boring the reader. When you’re writing these screenplays for the studio system…the people reading it are overworked, they’re coming home with ten scripts in their bag—and it’s not so much the first ten pages, […]

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What does a passion for passion for writing look like? I’ll let Academy Award-winer  Richard Brooks (1912-1922) answer that question: “I’d written some short stories before, but none was published. Anyway, every day, another short story. Everything became grist for a short story. It began to drive me crazy . . . a different plotline every […]

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