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Jared's Inkwell: The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Monday, May 19, 2014. The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning. You're wearing my nightgown.". Why do we see films? Showing your character’s flaw, as you know, is far more evocative than telling it. How does your character land him/herself in trouble in the story’s beginning, as a result of his/her personal problem? And how is that one thing their defining characteristic? 8221; He can’t wait for Nemo to go out and have an adventure. This sa...A new s...

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Jared's Inkwell: Three Paths to High Concept

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Monday, March 31, 2014. Three Paths to High Concept. Someone's hungry for a good story. The industry calls it High Concept. Screenwriter Terry Rossio calls it the Strange Attractor. I've called it the needlessly wordy Why Didn't I Come up with That First. Whatever you call it, it's all about concept - it's all about story. And for goodness' sake: it must be simple. People are stuck on a theme park island full of genetically engineered dinosaurs. This ...

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Jared's Inkwell: Larger than Life

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Mess up again and I'll hit you in the face with a T-Rex. You can go for years saying, 'I'm gonna get this thing real,' because they really haven't seen it real, do you know? They just keep seeing one fashion of unreal after the other that passes as real and you go mad with realism and then you come up against someone like Stanley [Kubrick] who says, 'Yeah it's real, but it's not interesting.'" - Jack Nicholson. But why would...

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Jared's Inkwell: Know Thy Craft

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Monday, June 24, 2013. Okay, Katniss: how wide, in. Inches, is a dialogue column? I had the pleasure of meeting an aspiring screenwriter at a Starbucks. He had written a five-page crime drama. I asked him for the premise. He took six minutes to describe the plot, which is a minute longer than the final film will likely run. 1 Hone Your Logline. When someone asks you, "What's the story? Even a film as riveting as The Godfather. Reluctant, inexperienced...

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Jared's Inkwell: Six Steps to the Next Step

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Six Steps to the Next Step. Relax, guys. It's just my first draft.". I was recently asked a really good question by a member of my writing group: "Will my script be ready after a rewrite? That depends on your definitions of "ready" and "rewrite." David Koepp, writer of Jurassic Park. Said that he's successful because he can tolerate 17 drafts. Scott Kosar, writer of The Machinist. And The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 1 Let it Sit.

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Jared's Inkwell: Expositionally Yours

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Monday, September 9, 2013. I choose to expose myself.". There are ladies present! Exposition is like a vegetable on a kid's plate. If you want it eaten, you must disguise it. While necessary to a point of being obvious, exposition's strength lies in its subtlety. It must be fed to your audience without their knowing. Unlike in this example:. There's a difference between telling. In the latter example. There's conflict. Jared M. Gordon. Six Steps to th...

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Jared's Inkwell: Eight Story Fixes

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Sunday, July 6, 2014. The easy part's over. Whatever it is, it's yours. You wrote something. You're a writer. And that's awesome. Period. But could it be better? In J K. Rowling's Harry Potter. Series, most of the series's action takes place in a single location: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But the location is really interesting. One setting. A zillion possibilities. Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. Stories must move us. The charac...

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Jared's Inkwell: Vince Gilligan at Harvard

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Screenwriting. Film. Industry. Playing the orchestra. Friday, April 4, 2014. Vince Gilligan at Harvard. This past week, Breaking Bad. Creator (and The X-Files. Writer) Vince Gilligan visited Harvard University as part of the Learning from Performers Speaker Series. As someone who's currently making his way through Breaking Bad. This struck me as a terrific opportunity to learn more about the craft from one of its modern masters. Or series of actions that can take the place of dialogue? Gilligan noted the...