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Inside Antigravity Academy Screenwriters Camp: How Great Ideas Start with Great Humanity
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https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/antigravity-academy-screenwriters-camp-deep-dive-1235133196/

CALL FOR WRITERS — Five Folktales, a multi-season anthology series.
Looking for co-writers to join in building this deep, researched world.

Details here → https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oXI0SNyVeQv5Jf8MURAQIaU8UWQgJ0GKM3K52DrjgE/edit?usp=sharing

Multiple genres. Shared universe. Deep scars.
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Emily definitely does NOT do what the men tell her.

After their father's death, a dusty old bottle of wine stirs up conflict among three siblings—not just over whether to drink it, but over who he loved most.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/3FsXqk5

#AlmostPlausible #BottleOfWine #Wine #Sarcasm #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie

Emily definitely does NOT do what the men tell her.

After their father's death, a dusty old bottle of wine stirs up conflict among three siblings—not just over whether to drink it, but over who he loved most.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/441rtZn

#AlmostPlausible #BottleOfWine #Wine #Sarcasm #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie

Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it,
transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low.
Names need to have a resonance, a fit
and this could take her where she yearned to go…

—Kay Clive, “Lorna Moon”
published in NORTHWORDS NOW 40 (Autumn-Winter 2020)

4/4

https://www.northwordsnow.co.uk/issue40/Lorna-Moon

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire #poem #poetry

LORNA MOON
BORN STRICHEN 1886, DIED NEW MEXICO 1930
BY KAY CLIVE

Lorna Moon, she liked the ring of it,
transformed from Nora Helen Wilson Low.
Names need to have a resonance, a fit
and this could take her where she yearned to go.
“Shameless”, they called her in the staid wee town,
between the Buchan farmland and the sea,
writing about the folk she’d always known
probing pretence, revealing oddity.
The library refused to stock her book -
the quine whose scripts had dazzled Hollywood
was shunned in Strichen. They could not overlook
that searing light that showed more than it should.

She planned a journey home when gravely ill,
her ashes in a “trochie”, back to Mormond Hill.

“The story of how Marion & Kate Corbaley tricked the studio executives into paying Lorna Moon $7500, while reviving Marie Dressler’s career, should be a legend in the history of female networking in the motion picture business”

from the Women Film Pioneers Project, Columbia University

3/4

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-lorna-moon/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire

Lobby card for the 1930 film Min and Bill.

A downwards-pointing triangular cut frames a photograph of "Min and Bill", played by Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. "Min" is a middle-aged woman with short dark hair. She is cradling the head of "Bill", a middle-aged man. "Min" looks steely and determined; "Bill" looks dazed and confused, and is draped in a fishing net.

Text reads: A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING picture

Marie Dressler
Wallace Beery
in
MIN and BILL

A George Hill production

Suggested from the book "Dark Star" by Lorna Moon
Scenario and dialogue by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson – Directed by George Hill

As well as scriptwriting, Moon achieved critical success with her 1929 novel DARK STAR – “an uncompromising picture of rural life… it explores the precarious social structures, sexual instabilities & surface hypocrisies that shape its confines”. It was adapted for the screen as MIN & BILL (1930), starring Marie Dressler & Wallace Beery

2/4

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire

Cover of the first edition of Lorna Moon’s novel DARK STAR (1929)

A striking red cover, with large, bold black lettering across the top, reading

DARK
STAR

The bottom third of the cover is dominated by a single, high, curling white wave. On top of that, along the base of the cover, are three smaller black wakes. Written on top of the black waves, in white, is the author's name: LORNA MOON

The Far Side of Lorna Moon

“I’m always either convinced that nobody can write as I can – or that I’m the world’s louseyest writer.”

Lorna Moon (1886–1930) was born #OTD, 16 June, as Nora Helen Wilson Low, in Strichen. Dr Glenda Norquay writes about her journey from Aberdeenshire to Hollywood

1/4

https://asls.org.uk/the-far-side-of-lorna-moon/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #owmenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire

MGM publicity portrait of Lorna Moon (1926)
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences / Academy Film Archive

A black-and-white photograph of a dark-haired, dark-eyed young woman, wearing a sleeveless dress which leaves here arms and shoulders bare. Her hair is cut in a 1920s bob. She has her left side turned towards us, and she is looking over her shoulder at the camera.

In Rana Naidu Season 2, something happens with a cricket bat early on.

The bat shows back up in the final episode. As soon as I saw it, as a writer and also an an audience member, I really needed something very specific to happen with it.

No spoilers. I'll just say I am very happy with the choices the writers made with it.

*If anyone is watching the show and wants to talk about that, I'll unpack under a content warning below. Let me know.

#RanaNaidu #Netflix #Writing #Screenwriting

How Stories Find Structure: Acts, Scenes and Beats Reframed

If stories are chaotic potential energy, scripts and novels are structured kinetic energy Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/how-stories-find-structure-acts-scenes-and-beats-reframed-84ce93ba87f

#storytelling #writingtips #structure #authors #screenwriting
@indieauthors

Daughter, Wife, Widow, Screenwriter: The Heroines’ Journey of Dorothy Davenport – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, June 2025

The Lunts and Barrymores may be more famous as theatrical families, but during their heyday, Dorothy Davenport’s parents, Alice and Harry, were also staples of the vaudeville circuit and expanded into motion pictures. Alice Davenport appeared in many films with Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, and Harry appeared in more than 150 films through the 1950s. Born in 1895, their daughter, Dorothy joined them on stage as a child, moved into acting in films where she met her husband, actor Wallace Reid. They married in 1913 and appeared together in nearly 100 short films. After Davenport gave birth to their son in 1917, she retired—or so she thought.

#screenwriting #history #women #writing #movies #film #tv #education #column #article #script #scriptmagazine

"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive."

- Tony Tost

https://practical.substack.com/p/the-mark-of-the-one-note-character

#screenwriting #film #tv

"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive." - Tony Tost practical.substack.com/p/the-mark-o... #screenwriting #film #tv

The Mark of the One-Note Chara...

Three Things You Should Know When Writing Your First Screenplay

And how you can avoid the same mistakes I made Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/three-things-you-should-know-when-writing-your-first-screenplay-c7b29eb8853

#filmmaking #screenwriting #howtowrite #savethecat #screenplay
@indieauthors

I'm always down for a game! And who knows, maybe I can make this EDGE OF TOMORROW serial killer mystery work one of these days. #ScriptSky #Screenwriting #Writing #ThurdPAgThirsday

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REGAN

Judging by how quickly she's deteriorating, we've got three hours before she's basically worthless.

EDDIE

You wanna talk to her?

REGAN

No. She seems... fragile. Besides, I don't want to be the reason we have social services to wheel her out.

EDDIE

Alright, I'll see if I can find out something we don't already know.

Regan leans close to the window, scrutinizes Alana.

REGAN (Con't)

We need to know why he picked her.

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

Cinder block walls painted light blue, harsh overhead lights.

Alana flinches when Eddie enters.

EDDIE

Alana? How you holding up? Can I get you anything?

Alana shakes her head, can't meet Eddie's eyes. He takes the seat across from her at the table, tries to act casual.

He notices the pronounced tremble in her hands.

EDDIE (CoNT'D)

Are you cold?

ALANA

No. I just can't stop shaking. Is that normal?

Eddie offers a sad smile instead of an answer.

EDDIE

I'm officer Simonson, but you can call me Eddie. I just have a few more questions if you're up to it.

We return to the hippie commune from our Snowflake episode—this time for a wedding! Snowflake Johnson is finally tying the knot, and among the guests is his little sister: June Bug. The cartel, still reeling from their losses in the previous episode, hatches a plan to kidnap several high-profile DEA agents during the ceremony. Their new leader tries to get close by charming June Bug, but his plan unravels when he realizes too late he was pursuing the wrong Johnson.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/4kC2Ec2

#AlmostPlausible #JuneBug #Snowflake #Wedding #Hostage #Kidnap #Kidnapping #Cartel #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie

We return to the hippie commune from our Snowflake episode—this time for a wedding! Snowflake Johnson is finally tying the knot, and among the guests is his little sister: June Bug. The cartel, still reeling from their losses in the previous episode, hatches a plan to kidnap several high-profile DEA agents during the ceremony.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/4kjIwLU

#AlmostPlausible #JuneBug #Snowflake #Wedding #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie

An old article, but it's much more relevant than ever as we witness the rapid upheaval of industries due to AI disruption. This is a foundational manual for surviving and thriving in this new World: https://shorturl.at/BNQh5 #writing #aiwriting #screenwriting #storytelling

In this interview, screenwriter, author, and podcaster @colehaddon talks with fellow screenwriter, author, and podcaster John August, whose #film credits include “Big Fish”.

https://fanfare.pub/q-a-john-august-wants-to-make-things-happen-e51513afce4f

#screenwriting #movies #BigFish #Medium

🎬 Every scene has stakes. Every beat has to land. Structure, pacing, dialogue—it’s a lot to hold in your head at once.

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