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So, Your Script Did Not Sell. This Might Explain Why and Put You on The Right Track

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During the four years it took me to research what makes scripts succeed at the box office for my PhD, I came across a very worrying trend. Academics who believe that various mathematical models can predict the success of a screenplay. This is one of them: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2011695118.short Now anyone who has ever worked in the …

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Film School or Not?

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I recently did an MA in creative writing and must say that it was a significant waste of time. 90% of the feedback was from other students who knew as little or less about writing as I did. I also taught screenwriting at various colleges over the years and found that the colleagues who had …

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Best Screenwriting Books?

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Over the last twenty years, the two titles that have most often been mentioned in producers’ offices and studio meetings have been: Robert McKee’s STORY and Linda Seger’s HOW TO MAKE A GOOD SCRIPT GREAT. If you are going to use one of the books, you might as well use one that the people you …

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