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Big thanks to Allie Theiss, Holly Newton & Larry Whitener for making LB’s most recent Master Class so vital & alive.
Time to rest & refresh for the next MC starting May 9th!

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How to Write a Story

A better title for this video would be, “How author John Dufresne works out his stories,” but what the hell. New writers trying to find their way through the process of actually writing, as opposed to selling their work, will find this a helpful and positive look into how to make the creative process work for them:

From TEDX

The “3-Minute Rule” and The Neuroscience Behind Screenwriting

nofilmschool.com brings us what should be a no-brainer but isn’t because writers. Thanks, doods!

by Jo Light

Scholar Dr. Connie Shears and writer Paul Joseph Gulino believe so, and have created a Chapman University class around this subject, as well as an accompanying book, The Science of Screenwriting: The Neuroscience Behind Storytelling Strategies. The book took five years to write. read article

Paul Schrader on Translating Words into Images

Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver

This is Paul Fucking Schrader, bitches. Do what he says!

In other words, this dood’s one of the masters of screenwriting. Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, etc. Definitely worth watching and listening to because, holy crap, kids, you’re gonna learn!

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Cartoon: ‘The Path to Empathy’

Our fave philosopher-cartoonist, Grant Snider, explains, in simple words and pictures, what it is that writers do when we’re, you know, writing. Without ever limiting himself to that particular topic.

We know truth when we see it, and so does Grant:

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