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From Dead Things ON Sticks: University can be a good place for a would-be writer to make the right connections, but, really, these days you can learn most of what you need to know about the industry on the Net. A case in point is this assemblage of posts by TV writer Denis McGrath, about prep week on an episodic drama. McGrath is an expat American who writes for the Canadian series "The Border";

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From The National (UAE): A survey once found that poets and playwrights ranked highest among writers for rates of alcoholism. I don't think it mentioned screenwriters, but if this profile of Hollywood shrink-to-the-scribes Dennis Palumbo is anything to go by, they'd be up there too.

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From Men's News Daily: Was Spike Lee right to call out Clint Eastwood because there were no black soldiers in his last two war movies? Or, as this nothing-if-not-pithy opinion piece suggests, are his remarks just an appeal to old-school identity politics that the U.S. is well rid of?

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From BlogCritics Magazine: A great article on those PitchFests that take your money to get you a minute or two with somebody who might buy your screenplay. Great, that is, unless you're looking for encouragement. The bad news? "It is a nightmare for all involved." The other bad news? "it just doesn’t really work." Other than that, they're fantastic.

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From The Orlando Sentinel: Screenwriter Sergio G. Sanchez may have figured out the reason for the success in America of films like Pan's Labyrinth and his own, The Orphanage: "When a Spanish or European or even Mexican film dares to go into those dark corners, you get the feeling that's something people would not welcome here. Strangely enough, though, American audiences seem to love that . . .

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From The Toronto Star and The New York Times: Given that she's a Catholic schoolgirl turned stripper turned hot indie-screenwriter, it's not surprising that Diablo Cody has become a media it-girl, profiled most recently in The Toronto Star and The New York Times. We'd say its sexist -- would she get this kind of press if she hadn't been a stripper, even with all the Oscar-talk swirling about her?

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From The Hollywood Reporter: Screenwriter-director Robin (The Jane Austen Book Club) Swicord talks about the advantages of directing her own script, and the Writer's Co-op, whose members take less money up-front in order to have a bigger say during production.

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From National Public Radio: "Is Hollywood afraid of what's going outside of Hollywood? You bet. Does that play into the current negotiations? Yes, that's a big part of it." Veteran TV writer Jeffrey ("Dawson's Creek") Stepakoff offers nuggets of wisdom on why, thanks to media consolidation and and digital media, the next writers' strike may be the toughest yet.

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From Eurogamer.net: Will the E-script Gofer soon have to open a new page just for video games? Writer-producer Katie Ellwood says The Getaway "has the same kind of emotional drive that a movie has."

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From A Dribble of Ink: So you're a beginning screenwriter and you have this favorite novel and you think it'd be fun to turn it into a movie. But then you think: naaah, they won't give me the rights and, even if they did, who'd buy a screenplay from me? Think again.

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From The Telegraph (UK): Ellin Stein asks: "The big question is why anyone would want to pursue a screenwriting career when they could earn decent money and a lot more respect writing for TV drama." The answer, we suspect, is that most writers would be happy with either.

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From The Los Angeles Times: Two skilfully-written screenplays with high-profile talent attached (Michael Mann and Leonardo DiCaprio in one instance, Peter Jackson in the other) circulate in Hollywood. One gets greenlighted, the other's still looking. Why?

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From johnaugust.com: Every once in awhile screenwriter John (Charlie's Angels, Big Fish) August hauls off and uses his popular blog to offer a craft lesson. As one of his respondents says, "This is what film school should be like." Here he talks about how (and when) to provide a telling introduction of a character.

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From Written in Canada: The writers of the new TV series Blood Ties, and the creator of the Gingersnaps movie franchise, argue that horror doesn't have to equal schlock.

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From LA Weekly: Is the Writers Guild of America withholding millions in dollars from its own members? A whistelblower gives new legs to the case.

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From Screentalk: What you really want to do is direct? Jonathan Kasdan (son of Lawrence) suggests writing a screenplay so autobiographical they can't think of anyone else.

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From The Los Angeles Time: Despite the recent success of 300 and Sin City, comic book god Frank Miller has had a stormy relationship with Hollywood. So now the inevitable has happened: he's becoming a director.

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From E! Online: Come to think of it, how come TV characters on the phone never say goodbye?

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From the WGA (West): Once he gets through the obligatory part where he has to insist he's not just another Tarantino wannabe, screenwriter- director Joe (Narc, Smokin' Aces) Carnahan has some interesting things to say about his writing process, why he loves rewriting, and the difference between a production script and the draft you write for readers.

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From MovieMaker Magazine: We don't post a lot of "how-to" articles here on the ol' E-script Gofer (you can always check out the Postings and Q&A sections of the site for that sort of thing). But this piece on the storyboard process is a welcome reminder that you don't need a lot of fancy story generating software to write a good movie.

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From The BBC and The Miami Herald: British screenwriters are veddy, veddy hot this Oscar season. Patrick Marber, nominated for Notes on a Scandal, says the studios have finally quit abusing serious writers as "artsy-fartsy idiots." Meanwhile, in this interview published before his nomination for The Queen was announced, Peter Morgan credits director Stephen Frears' text messages for the script's

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From AsianWeek.com: With critical plaudits and Oscar talk building around Letters From Iwo Jima, screenwriter Iris Yamashita (who collaborated on the script with Paul Haggis) is already having a good year. But will there be another big job for her? As she notes in this interview, only 7% of feature films in Hollywood are penned by minority writers.

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From Reuters: Conventional screenwriting wisdom holds that voice- over narration is a no-no. Apparently conventional screenwriting wisdom is wrong.

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From The Hollywood Reporter: While screenwriters Michael Tolkin and Wesley Strick return to the solo satisfactions of novel- writing, these career novelists ponder the hazards of turning over your baby to Hollywood.

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From The L.A. Times and johnaugust.com: We agree with screenwriter John August that the L.A. Times story on Clive Cussler's lawsuit against the producers of Sahara is pretty damn entertaining. But even more entertaining is the post by one respondent on August's website, going off on him for suggesting that Cussler is the villain of the piece. "Before you go calling somebody else's work a '

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