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Christine Conradt on Becoming a Screenwriter

Hans-Peter Zimmermann is a Swiss nonfiction author, commuting between Gstaad, Switzerland, and Orange County, California. His web show Screenwriters Get Personal features screenwriters and industry experts who are willing to share their hard-won experience. In the second episode, he interviews Christine Conradt (http://www.christineconradt.com), a productive screenwriter and a household name at the Lifetime Movie Network. […]

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Nano by John Robert Marlow

John Robert Marlow on Turning Your Novel into a Movie

Hans-Peter Zimmermann is a Swiss nonfiction author, commuting between Gstaad, Switzerland, and Orange County, California. His web show Screenwriters Get Personal features screenwriters and industry experts who are willing to share their hard-won experience. In this first episode, his guest is John Robert Marlow (http://www.makeyourstoryamovie.com), novelist, screenwriter, and adaptation specialist. His book Make Your Story […]

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Pixar's 22 Rules for Storytelling

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling: Challenge Your Characters. Come Up With Your Ending Before Doing Your Middle. #writing #writers #authors Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Admire characters for attempting more. Keep in mind what’s interesting to you. Get to the end of the story. Then rewrite. Once upon a time there was . . . […]

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Ray Bradbury on Writing

Ray Bradbury on Writing

Here is a wonderful quote from science fiction author Ray Bradbury on writing. If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only when you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury, science fiction author You fail only when you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury #writing #books #writers […]

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