Scriptcake

It's a question I get asked all the time. Do you really need to take a screenwriting course? 

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An insightful conversation with Chris Lockhart, Hollywood’s foremost story professional.  He is an executive,  filmmaker, and educator with over 30 years of industry experience.  

As Story Editor at WME, the world's largest diversified talent agency, Chris curates film and TV projects for A-list actors such as Denzel Washington. He has read over 60,000 screenplays in his career. 

​Chris also founded a Facebook group called The Inside Pitch, where he moderates 15,000+ creatives and offers daily advice and feedback on the Hollywood script maze.  

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

I came across an interesting term called 'Multiple Discovery' while doing some research for a project. Though it is a scientific term it really hit me how well it applies to the arts. 

Take a few moments to listen to my comments on Multiple Discovery and how we can use it to motivate ourselves on our projects.

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

We have a lot of expectations for ourselves. We expect to improve and to grow and live great lives but sometimes we let our expectations out of hand like I did after I wrote my first screenplay. We need to learn from our own expectations.

We also need to make sure we know what our characters expectations are in every scene. Check out this podcast to learn more.

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

Amazingly insightful Talk with Alan Watt who is an L.A. Times best-selling author and screenwriter as well as consultant to some of Hollywood's top writers and producers. 

He has won a number of awards for his writing including France's 2004 Prix Printemps (best foreign novel) for Diamond Dogs. He is also the writer/director of the award-winning feature film Interior Night

He founded L.A. Writers' Lab in 2002 as a place for writers to deepen their craft by learning to marry the wildness of their imaginations to the rigor of story structure. He has taught everyone from award-winning authors and A-list screenwriters, to journalists, poets, actors, professional athletes, war veterans, housewives, doctors, lawyers, television showrunners, and anyone else with a story to tell.

Learn more about Alan and his work here ==>> https://lawriterslab.com

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

The five W's are standard questions that every writer uses but when writing screenplays two of them are more important than the others.

Listen and learn which ones and why!

To learn more about my new screenplay outlining course, click the link below:

www.scriptcake.com

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

This is an amazing conversation with Tom Schulman encapsulating the following:

- His screenwriting process
- Writing "Dead Poets Society", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Medicine  Man" and more
- Being a part of the 2023 WGA negotiations team

Watch Tom's latest movie "Double Down South" here:

https://geni.us/DoubleDownSouth

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

There is often a tug-of-war going on between structure and creativity. Which one of them is more important? Which one of them should you focus on? 

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

How do you write a layered story before you even start? You have to have your concept connected to your story. Well, how do you do that? That's what this podcast will tell you how to do. Check it out!

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.

A fascinating conversation from the business end of the film industry with Scott Kirkpatrick.

Learn about:

- The six genres of movies that most distributors look for
- What kinds of movies sell faster
- What types of screenplays are distributors looking for
- How are payments structured for screenwriters/filmmakers
- and so much more...

Check out Scott's books here ==>> Scott Kirkpatrick books

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.