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The Facts Behind Great Fiction
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 4, 2011The path to authentic storytelling lies in research.
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October 6, 2011
The Facts Behind Great Fiction
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 4, 2011The path to authentic storytelling lies in research.
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Screenwriting
The Facts Behind Great Fiction
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 4, 2011The path to authentic storytelling lies in research.
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Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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July 21, 2011
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Screenwriting
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts
Lisa Rosenberg
May 10, 2011The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
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May 12, 2011
Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts
Lisa Rosenberg
May 10, 2011The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
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Screenwriting
Bold Moves, Peril Define Great Third Acts
Lisa Rosenberg
May 10, 2011The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
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Poetry in Motion: Working in Action
Lisa Rosenberg
Mar 1, 2011Build an action picture with a poor script? At your own risk.
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March 3, 2011
Poetry in Motion: Working in Action
Lisa Rosenberg
Mar 1, 2011Build an action picture with a poor script? At your own risk.
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Screenwriting
Poetry in Motion: Working in Action
Lisa Rosenberg
Mar 1, 2011Build an action picture with a poor script? At your own risk.
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December 2, 2010
Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Screenwriting
Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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08-05-2010
Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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Screenwriting
Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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Screenwriting
Childhood's Richness on Film
Lisa Rosenberg
Mar 23, 2010When a child assumes center stage on film, the potential for both thematic richness and unexpected plot directions increases exponentially.
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Screenwriting
Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 16, 2009Writer/director Carmen Madden's writing reflects just how intimately she comes to see and know a screenplay's world and the characters that inhabit it.
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Screenwriting
The Importance of Supporting Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 13, 2009Beyond Words: The people who back up the main character are often key sources of revelation, unmasking aspects of personality, motivation and backstory.
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Screenwriting
Understanding Backstory
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 25, 2009Behind any narrative for the screen is the story that came before it—the life that shaped the central character, who arrives fully formed as your story opens
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Screenwriting
Beyond Words: Comedy That Sticks
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 7, 2009What's the key to writing comedy that sticks with us, despite perhaps an overblown story line or how lost and low-down the characters seem at the time?
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Screenwriting
The Hero, Deconstructed
Lisa Rosenberg
May 18, 2009Beyond Words: Linda Rosenberg explores the transformation of the contemporary film hero in Doubt and In Bruges.
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Screenwriting
Character, Stripped to the Bone
Lisa Rosenberg
Apr 7, 2009Chop Shop, and Frozen River, present challenges in the building of character: attention to details of behavior and shifts in the character's world signal a hero's journey both profound and deeply internal.
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Screenwriting
The Alchemy of Adaptation
Lisa Rosenberg
Feb 19, 2009Beyond Words: To pull off an adaptation, you must translate the unwieldy bulk of the original story into a breathing and transformative tale on screen.
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Case Studies in Screenwriting: Pam Gray
Lisa Rosenberg
Dec 19, 2008Sebastopol-based screenwriter Pamela Gray's approach to screenwriting is the literary equivalent of the slow food movement.
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The Dimensions of Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 24, 2008Beyond Words: Skillful dialogue on film can achieve a structural dimension that shapes the narrative as surely as plot does.
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