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Tips of the Day and Tales of Woe from the World of Screenwriting.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Perfect Poem for a Quiet, Foggy Sunday

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Light will someday split you open Even if your life is now a cage, For a divine seed, the crown of destiny, Is hidden and sown on an ancient...
Friday, January 7, 2011

How Characters are Not Like People

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I've been working on a character roughly based on me about 15 years ago. Some of the same struggles and same situations, but amped and ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

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"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” - William Fau...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Reason to Write #137

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"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Neurocinema

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Everybody in California has been to a test screening once. Very few have been twice. It's exciting to the unsuspecting: you're inv...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

(BEAT)

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What does (BEAT) mean? Some people will tell you it's a way to get an actor to pause for something important. It tells the actor when t...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Set Ups

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Have you ever watched a movie without audio -- say, in a bar or on an airplane? If you're paying any attention at all, you usually know...
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Rich Schimpf
Rich Schimpf is a screenwriter, editor, and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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