Tag: screenwriting

Do Good Writing Skills = Good Writing?

Our friend Theresa Wiza has been writing about things other than writing recently (can you imagine that?), but we found this post of hers at WritingCreatively.Org that sings to us oh-so sweetly:

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by Theresa Wiza

Recently I was forced to ask myself this question: Do good writing skills equal good writing? What prompted the question was a blog I read from a writer who reached into my soul and tugged at my heart so completely, I found myself immersed in the spirit of her words. Because of her writing, I began to notice the emotional impact of other writers and of myself. read article

Peer Production: STUCK

All too true?

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Who says video games are ruining our ability to participate in life? read article

Angelo Bell: The Great Equalizer

by Angelo Bell

Life is never a level playing field.

There will always be people who are smarter than you.

There will aways be  people who are better connected than you. read article

Peggy Bechko: Five Tips To Better Your Writing

We love Peggy cuz, like our mom, she’s always right:

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by Peggy Bechko

Good writing is simple writing. I don’t mean dumbed down, I mean basic and clear. I think most experienced writers and readers will agree. Readers from the viewpoint of story flow and involvement and writers from virtually the same viewpoint. read article

The Nuclear Option: Batman, Iron Man, and Attitudes Toward Power

There’s nothing like overthinking THE AVENGERS and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES to bring sunshine to our day:

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by Richard Rosenbaum

The summer of 2012 saw the premiere of two major superhero movies: The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Of course, both being superhero movies it’s only logical that they would have a certain number of things in common – tropes of the genre that make it what it is instead of, you know, something else. There were plenty of extra-diegetic similarities as well: both were directed and co-written by well-respected auteurs (Joss Whedon and Christopher Nolan respectively), both were the culmination of film series that had led up to these as their climax (in DKR’s case it was the final volume in Nolan’s trilogy that started with 2005’s Batman Begins; with Avengers it was the ultimate assembly of characters and plotlines that had been being pieced together since Iron Man in 2008). read article