30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
26 November 2006
Jason Mittell's Just TV blog
blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;
22 November 2006
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
19 November 2006
Poynter Online - Writing Tools
50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these
15 November 2006
Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon
Senses of Cinema
one of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
13 November 2006
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
12 November 2006
Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons
another how-to site for a skill useful for film and videomakers' storyboard making
11 November 2006
dream
tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point
Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com
by 4 otherszen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling
Zensufi Park
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
02 November 2006
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story
one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer
23 October 2006
Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers
tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing
16 October 2006
Guardian Unlimited | Science | DNA discovery may crack old murder cases
news article that gives new plot device to use in crime tv scripts or detective films; new way to interpret old or poor quality DNA samles
11 October 2006
SOS: Searching Out Stories - Story-Lovers
exhaustive list of stories, news articles that suggest stories; my favorite: "ANIMALS, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, FISH and INSECTS – stories, folklore and facts"
Types of Stories for the Telling
useful for writers and teachers; screenwriters will find a lot of basic story types to exploit
10 October 2006
Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1
by 3 othersthe kinds of things all screenwriters can steal from, over and over
06 October 2006
The Hero's Three-Part Journey
different versions of this mythological structure, often used by screenwriters; somewhat male-oriented
The RML Page of SCREENPLAYS
many links for screenwriters, not well organized
02 October 2006
BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart
free screenwriting formatting tool to use with Microsoft Word; I have not tried it and do not know how well it works.
