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Why are you writing a screenplay?

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Writing is hard. Way too hard to do if you don't love it. Here's a great quotation from Andre Gide: If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. Writing, as Plato said, is a kind of madness.  A sickness of sorts. And for the true writer, there's no cure. [...]

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Inaugural Post

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Screenwriter's Compass is going live. I will be posting advice on how to confront and navigate the blank page. Much of what you will see here will be meditations culled from over twenty years of teaching screenwriting at Columbia University. Some will be anecdotal parables from years of working (and not working) in the film [...]

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