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		<title>Adapting for the Screen: Heaven and Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Script Magazine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapting a novel to a screenplay can be heaven or hell, and it’s usually a little of each. Why is adapting a joy?  For most screenwriters, the problems of adapting a book are outweighed by the joys of working with very rich source material. Novelists put in so much work to create vivid characters, interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask the Expert: How to Use Transitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Script Magazine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What is the right use of transitions in formatting your script? A: Transitions are used to indicate a special passage from one scene to another. In old Hollywood, “CUT TO:” used to be used to end every scene, but that is now considered bad form that wastes page space and clutters up reading the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sending Queries to Literary Managers About a Screenplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Bork</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I work with writers giving feedback and guidance on their material and career paths, I often end up giving advice about how to gain access to agents, managers, and producers – which seems to most writers to be the biggest challenge of this business. The common conception is that &#8220;who you know&#8221; is ultimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Writer Podcast 049 &#8211; William Rabkin (Writing the Pilot)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gray Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Successful Television Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, a good spec TV script could land you a job on staff. Now, everyone wants spec pilots. So where are the resources on how to write one? Enter William Rabkin: not only has he written and/or produced hundreds of hours of dramatic television, but he literally wrote the book on pilot writing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Writer Podcast 048 &#8211; Manager Brandy Rivers of Gersh Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gray Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brandy Rivers is currently a literary manager/producer at Gersh Agency and working in both film and television. She is responsible for representing authors, screenwriters, and directors as well as developing underlying material including novels, articles, blogs, video games and life rights for production. Click image to play video; more details are below. In this interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Talking to Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Script Magazine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hollywood executives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to write a screenplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screenwriting tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tales of the script]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Practicing savvy techniques can help ensure you’re taken seriously by the film industry—even before you’re a working professional. INT. BIG-TIME PRODUCTION COMPANY — DAY It’s 9:30 on Monday morning, and the place is hectic. Phones are ringing, executives are discussing scripts they read over the weekend, and everyone’s buzzing about the latest box-office figures. Seated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balls of Steel: How Far Will You Go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanne Veillette Bowerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Balls of Steel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne Veillette Bowerman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[success as a screenwriter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scriptmag.com/?p=34171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Success. We dream about it. We lust for it. We wake in the wee hours before our day jobs, as well as burn the midnight oil, to find time to write. Some days, the amount of hours we clock seem endless, but we keep putting ink on paper, believing in our destiny to be writers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting Webinar of the Week: April 18th</title>
		<link>http://www.scriptmag.com/features/screenwriting-webinar-of-the-week-april-18th</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Script Magazine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3 act structure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jacob krueger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Myth of the 3-Act Structure: Why Am I Lost in the Second Act? At a Glance This webinar includes a free 20 minute one-on-one consultation. You’ll also have your questions answered by Award-Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger! Stop imposing rigid formulas from the outside, and learn how to grow your screenplay organically, from character, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joke Writing Techniques Vary Depending Upon the Medium</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Script Magazine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you make your career as a comedy writer, it’s a good idea to learn how to write funny in a variety of different mediums. That’s especially true these days with new media popping up faster than you can say, “tweet.” Taking as my inspirations such multi-hyphenates as Woody Allen and Steve Martin, I’ve always [...]]]></description>
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