Quote of the day
“Dialogue, dramatized and narratized, performs three essential funcions: exposition, characterization, action.”
-Robert McKee, Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen.
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Video of the week: Conversations
Writing
5 Reasons to Consider Using an Omniscient Narrator | Live Write Thrive
The Four Things Your Protagonist Needs In Your Story | Jennifer Blanchard
How Much Description Is Too Much? | Writers In The Storm
Further vs Farther: What’s the Difference? | The Write Practice
Using Real-World Locations to Ground Your Story’s Setting | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
7 Tips on Writing Great Mystery and Suspense Novels | WritersDigest.com
What an Actor Wants You to Know About Your Novel – a guest post from Art Holcomb | Storyfix.com
Screenwriting
Character Introductions | flying wrestler
Writing Wisdom from Akira Kurosawa | Go Into The Story
Three Ways to Make Characters More Three-Dimensional | ScreenCraft
Interviews (Video): David Lynch | Go Into The Story
Why dishonest characters feel more real | John August
Screenplay Review | Keeper of the Diary
Self-publishing
How do you plan to publish your work in progress? | Nathan Bransford, Author
Building an Author Platform with Ginger Monette | Romance University
Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – May 2017 | The Book Designer
Ebook Bundling for Authors with Chuck Heintzelman | The Creative Penn
How I got kicked out of Kindle Unlimited and (almost) lost $50,000 overnight | Creativindie
That thing about Kindle Unlimited is a real eyeopener. I’m glad it had a happy ending.