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We are going to keep this page up for a limited time. Check out the back issues. There is a book's worth of free material here, including awesome content from David Gillis, Rhona Berens, PhD., Scriptshadow, Julie Marsh, Elisa at ReaderReady and many others.

Most of the time, the first article listed is my in-depth craft or craft/career column.

Remember, the old ads and offers are not necessarily valid anymore.

Enjoy!

Jim

Craft & Career Issue 1 (8/26/2009)
Exploitation of Concept
Interview with Michael Lent (Be the architect of your own fate)
WWTBD? Loose Ends/Concept
Craft & Career Issue 2 (9/17/2009)
Film Analysis for Screenwriters (Dead Poets Society)
Style Matters: 10 Common Mistakes
Screenwriter's Guide to Comic Con
Interview with Laura Harkcom (We Kill Monsters)
WWTBD? Coming up with Going Down
Craft & Career Issue 3 (9/17/2009)
Spec Market or Blech Market
The F'd Up Permutation - Dead Poets Society
Craft & Career Issue 4 (10/21/2009)
Scene Writing w/ Kevin Costner
Style Matters: Don't be a Lazy Writer
WWTBD? Intersection of Possible Meanings
Craft & Career Issue 5 (11/30/2009)
Scene Writing
WWTBD? Guest Column from Teenage Stepson
Style Matters: Don't be a Lazy Writer, Part II
Craft & Career Issue 6 (12/21/2009)
New Year's Revolutions with Rhona Berens
10 Things Every Producer Needs to know About Film Financing
Champion Lab Recap (Introductions)
Craft & Career Issue 7 (2/1/2010)
Avatar: Take the Best, Leave the Rest
WWTBD? Dear Jennifer Nettles...
Style Matters: Writers, Edit Thyself
Film Financing 100.5 - Part 1
Craft & Career Issue 8 (2/28/2010)
Dialogue: Beats of a Dead Horse
WWTBD? Personal but not too Personal
Film Financing 100.5 - Part 2
Craft & Career Issue 9 (4/1/2010)
The Hurt Locker: The Goal of non-goal-oriented Movies
Film Financing 100.5 - Part 3
WWTBD? The Worlds of Bruce Springsteen
Craft & Career Issue 10 (5/7/2010)
Analysis, Microanalysis and Psycho Analysis: Scene Analysis on a reader's script
Craft & Career Issue 11 (5/28/2010)
We Learned More from a Three-Minute Record than we Ever Learned in School
Why do Bad Scripts Sell by ScriptShadow
Craft & Career Issue 12 (6/30/2010)
Killer Endings excerpt on Dilemmas
Dilemma in Action - Short piece about writing for standup comedian
Craft & Career Issue 13 (8/10/2010)
When to Say Yes (Quick discussion of The Kids are All Right)
The Value of Values by Rhona Berens, PhD
Craft & Career Issue 14 - October 8 (10/8/2010)
Got Hook?
WWTBD? Again Again and Again
Craft & Career Issue 15 (11/24/2010)
Back to the Old School - How some older movies have been inspirations for more recent ones.
Craft & Career Issue 16 (12/23/2010)
Chipotle Sequence Method, Role-Playing and some other tips from Champion Lab
WWTBD? Intro to Intros
Craft & Career Issue 17 (2/3/2011)
Link to Video Blog on Exposition
WWTBD? Breaking Cliches
(Beware of the colors, this newletter was a transition to new look!)
Craft & Career Issue 18 (3/10/2011)
The Importance of Importance
Craft & Career: Issue 19 (5/27/2011)
Video Blog: Six Reasons You Need to Know More than Structure.
Craft & Career: Issue 20 (7/27/2011)
Montage Format from Elisa at Reader Ready
Craft & Career: Issue 21 (8/31/2011)
Untangling Tangled
Craft & Career: Issue 22 (11/8/2011)
WWTBD? Opposites React
Craft & Career: Issue 23 (12/27/2011)
Surprise versus Confusion
Craft & Career: Issue 24 (1/23/2012)
Video Blog: Is Enough Enough?
Two Crowdfunding Perspectives
Craft & Career: Issue 25 (2/14/2012)
Video Blog: The Perfect Script
Craft & Career: Issue 26 (5/22/2012)
Love on the Rocks: You and Your Screenwriting Paradigm
Jim's Letter about the upcoming DVD set.
Craft & Career: Issue 27 (6/12/2012)
A Scene from a Winning Script
Craft & Career Issue 28 Video/Nola Edition (9/18/2012)
Links to almost a dozen video excerpts including Hard Scrambled Bonus Material.

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