Ten Screenwriting Articles by Gordy Hoffman

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You're an Idiot: Making Value from Reaction to your
Screenwriting

If you're like me, if someone doesn't like something
about my screenplay, my very first reaction is always
the same. You're not as smart as me. If you knew what
I knew, you would understand what I wrote. And you
don't understand what I wrote, because you don't know
as much as I do. About everything, in general. In
short, life. You know, people. Planet Earth.
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The Rogue Knight of Cinema: Why Screenplay Contests
Matter

Screenplay contests are changing cinema. Coming from a
person who runs one, your first reaction to this
statement is most likely, "The only reason you're
saying that is you want me to enter yours."
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YOU ARE THE BOX OFFICE SMASH: The Personal Screenplay

Right this very second, in the heart of every
struggling, undiscovered screenwriter, in the dark,
hidden corner deep within, there is a voice, a clear
whisper, saying one thing: You're never gonna figure
this out. And this is not referring to the story with
its gaping hole, the finale missing a payoff, the hit
and miss humor, the flat title. I'm talking about
freedom. The freedom to work as a screenwriter.
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Naming Your Baby: How to Find a Great Title to your
Screenplay

How exactly does one work on the title of their
screenplay? I recently came up with such a wonderful
idea for a movie, one of those miraculous moments,
like finding money on the sidewalk. I told somebody,
and they said, "Great. What's the title?" Suddenly,
and rather horrifyingly, my beauty of an idea is
crippled.
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Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge

After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the
BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in
the execution of the story and script continue to
emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent
issues.
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Discovering the Great Movie Idea for Your Next
Screenplay

I am lucky. I have no problems coming up with very
good ideas for movies. If I never had another idea for
the rest of my life, I would not make a sizable dent
in the ones I already have.
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How to Start a Screenplay: Treatment or Free Fall?

Starting a screenplay can sometimes be as hard as
finishing one. Impatient to pull up to the front door
of a classic motion picture, I want to get everything
right so quickly. This impatience challenges my trust
in the work, the creative process of screenwriting.
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Writing the Classic Movie Ending (How to Finish your
Screenplay!

I’ve only finished so many screenplays in my life.
Writing a script all the way to the very last page is
always an extremely significant, personal achievement
for me. A large part of its significance is the
reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the
very least, typed “THE END.”
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Rewriting your Screenplay: The Road to your Audience

The promise of the rewrite is very sweet. I have
collected evidence that the more authentic the labor
put into rewriting your screenplay, the greater the
reward, and the reward is high, for whatever lovely,
wonderful moments you might have discovered in the
frightening process of plowing through the first
draft.
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The Heart and Soul of Screenwriting: Writing good
dialogue and description

Writing dialogue and description is writing a
screenplay. You can argue about format and tab margins
and what to capitalize and what not. I won't. Dialogue
and description is where the experience of screenplay
for your reader lives. We write screenplays to make
movies. They are not literature.
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