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Are Writers Better During Bad Times? By Todd Berger

Film Courage: Are you a better writer when you are going through happy times in your life or when things are a little more...

How To Write Stories That Change The World With Pamela Jaye Smith [MYTH MASTERCLASS]

In this Film Courage video interview, author/writer and teacher Pamela Jaye Smith shares close to 2 hours of wisdom on mythic themes in storytelling....

The Big Secret To Writing An Anti-Hero by Peter Russell

Film Courage: So you’re shopping the production around or you’re looking for a production company? Peter Russell, screenwriter and script doctor: No, it’s been sold...

Sell Your Story To Hollywood: Writer’s Guide To Show Business by Dr. Ken Atchity

Film Courage: Ken, as a tenured professor in your mid-40s, what made you think you could change careers? Dr. Ken Atchity, Producer/Author: Well, this is...

Sometimes It Takes 16 Years For A Movie To Get Made by Todd Berger

Film Courage: I heard you say or maybe it was your producer say “We will believe it when we have a call sheet for...

Audiences Don’t Care About Screenplay Formula by Gordy Hoffman

Film Courage: You’ve just given us 5 minutes and 8 second of advice to someone who has never written a screenplay. If you took...

Write Durnk, Edit Sober by Jeffrey Davis and Peter Desberg

Film Courage: Your new book just came out, Now That's Funny. I understand it contains 24 writers, you give them a premise, a situation about...

What Screenplay Will Sell? – Scott Kirkpatrick vs. Larry Wilson

Scott Kirkpatrick: It’s a huge question to say ‘What should I write?” And I do my best to answer that in the easiest way...

Fail Because You Tried, Not Because You Were Scared by LA4hire’s Wendy Kram

Film Courage: This is a common question I ask but it usually ends up having great results, and that is of your IMDB credits...

A Screenwriter’s First Success by Gordy Hoffman

Film Courage: What was your first success as a screenwriter? Gordy Hoffman, Founder/Judge of the Bluecat Screenplay Competition: Well, my first obvious success was LOVE,...