Scott Myers

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• The Importance of Subplots

  An in-depth exploration of the value of these mini-stories.

  17,503 views ‧ 643 reads ‧ 3.67%

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  Jan 20, 2025

  Jan 21, 2025

• Screenwriting Tip: How to Handle Blocks of Scene Description

  Think of each paragraph as a camera shot... with a catch.

  14,812 views ‧ 369 reads ‧ 2.49%

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  Nov 23, 2024

  Nov 24, 2024

• Writing Goals: 2023 [Part 10] — Trust the Process

  10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2022 and will do in 2023.

  1,854 views ‧ 360 reads ‧ 19.42%

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  writing

  Dec 16, 2022

  Dec 16, 2022

• 30 Days of Screenplays, Day 8: "Dead Poets Society"

  Why 30 screenplays in 30 days?

  4,325 views ‧ 241 reads ‧ 5.57%

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  film

  Nov 08, 2022

  Nov 08, 2022

• Tarantino, Sorkin, and Dialogue as Purpose

  Analysis of long dialogue-centric scenes in The Social Network and Pulp Fiction reveals that underneath the entertaining conversations lies...

  29,474 views ‧ 798 reads ‧ 2.71%

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  film

  Oct 06, 2022

  Oct 06, 2022

• Reflections on Carl Jung : Psychological Rule as Fate'

  Carl Jung's theory of individuation is directly applicable to the Protagonist's journey in a screenplay.

  1,312 views ‧ 142 reads ‧ 10.82%

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  Oct 06, 2022

  Oct 06, 2022

• The Business of Screenwriting: Withdrawing screen credit and pseudonyms

  Let's begin this post with a quote from arguably the dean of contemporary American screenwriters William Goldman:

  173 views ‧ 62 reads ‧ 35.84%

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  film

  Oct 06, 2022

  Oct 06, 2022

• 100 Scene-Writing Prompts

  At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Use these prompts to improve your scene-writing chops.

  456,571 views ‧ 67,814 reads ‧ 14.85%

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  Nov 11, 2017

  Jan 10, 2023