January 2012
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November 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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Screenwriting Tip #690
screenwritingtips:
The relationship subplot doesn’t have to be about romantic love. Platonic friendship is just as powerful a narrative force. Look at MIDNIGHT RUN, or the classic example of Kirk and Spock.
Or, more recently, X-Men: First Class.
June 2011
4 posts
May 2011
6 posts
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort...”
– C. S. Lewis
“Silence is a friend who will never betray.”
– Confucius
“Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare (via encyclopediabritannica)
March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
3 posts
October 2010
5 posts
Guest Post Week: Tip #4
screenwritingtips:
Nothing breaks immersion quite like a character saying, “This isn’t the movies, this is the real world” or “This always works in the movies”. As soon as you do, we remember we’re watching a movie.
- tip by Mark
They recently pulled this stunt in the opening lines of the CHUCK season premiere.
CHUCK Buddy, this is not the opening of a TV show. This is real life.
I love...
September 2010
6 posts
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August 2010
13 posts
If I'd never heard of God...
friendlyatheist:
A native in South America asks a Catholic Priest what would’ve happened if he had died without knowing about Christianity and God. The priest replies, “You would have been sent to heaven” To which the native replies, “Why did you tell me then?”
Submitted by anvitasayshi
Soup for Thought: EVOLUTION →
fuckyeahevolution:
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then. Mindless…
