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Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Top Three Tips to Winning a Screenplay Contest #scriptchat
Get out the lucky rabbit’s foot, nail that horseshoe up over the office door and keep your fingers crossed – except, of course, when typing. Continue reading
Posted in A Category, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, Helpful Tool, Interesting Find, Screenplay, Writing
Tagged #ww, choosing a screenplay contest, consulting other winners, getting solid criticism, hints, polishing your screenplay, researching contests, screenplay contests, ScriptChat, tips, tips for winning, tricks, winnig a script contest, winning a screenplay competition, winning the CSSC
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The Single BIGGEST Mistake Writers Make. Period.
Tweet Anyone who reads fairy tales knows the danger of wishes. Someone who gets three wishes always winds up having to wish a sausage off someone’s nose and doesn’t get the big house and the gold bathtub. That’s bad enough, … Continue reading
Posted in #ww, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, david cormican, Helpful Tool, Interesting Find, Writing
Tagged biggest mistake writers make, facebook, financial woes of writing, finishing what you write, importance of exercise and health, making a living, party poker, research, submitting work for sale, swedish party poker, tips and tricks for writers, tips for writers, writer tips, writers hints, Writing, writing for a living, writing for money, writing tips and tricks, writing what you know
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 31st: Wishing and Cat Skinning
Maybe it doesn’t matter at all that they find the truth of their Art and chase the dream some other how. Perhaps I’ll just like the product as something created by funny, original, literate minds. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww
Tagged #writerswednesday, #writerwednesday, #ww, Banff Media Festival, book club, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, cocoverse, Dave Moses, Deb Norton, fake film fest, finger puppets, Ink Canada, Kat Montague, laws of writing, Sequoia Hamilton, stephen pressfield, the war of art, tiff, Toronto Screenwriter's Conference, VIFF, WIFT, Yorkton
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A message from the Yorkton Film Festival
Tweet For immediate release from the Yorkton Film Festival: Yorkton Film Festival to award $1,000 bursary to winner of Emerging Filmmaker Category. The Yorkton Film Festival has partnered with the RBC to present a new cash bursary award for the … Continue reading
#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 30th: The Road to Hell
I’ve been known to argue at length in defense of the use of a very particular word, using completely made-up-by-me but official sounding terms like, “emotional resonance” or “cultural zeitgeist”. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Writing
Tagged averbs, Banff Media Festival, biopic, Catholic guilt, Coleridge, Crazy8s, Gerbil Wheel, Gerbils, golden globes, hell, intentions, irony, Kierkegaard, Marx, On Writing, Ricky Gervais, Saint Bernard, Samuel Johnson, sarcasm, Stephen King, Walter Scott, workshop, writer, Yorkton Film Festival, zeigeist
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Calling All Students, last chance to enter your scripts – just $30!!
Win $2,500 cash, an iPad, have your screenplay produced, attend Yorkton Film Festival, receive our Writer’s Block award—and, most importantly, get your name out by winning the most prestigious short film screenplay competition in North America. Continue reading
Posted in #ww, Announcement, Announcements, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, Discounts and Coupons, Helpful Tool, Interesting Find, Production, Short Film, Some Category, Winner, Writing
Tagged #ww, $2500 cash, $30, discounts for students, iPad, January 31 2011, Screenplay, script contest, Student Discounts, Student Special, writers block award, Yorkton Film Festival
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The Compleat Writer’s Emergency Survival Kit
The first thing I’m asking myself is this – why does a writer need an emergency survival kit? I mean, are we talking end-of-the-world, zombie-apocalypse emergency here? Or just the Rochester bus terminal on a Tuesday night? (I think I spent a week in the Rochester bus terminal one Tuesday night. They didn’t even have a coffee machine! Not that I drink coffee, but still!!) Continue reading
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Tagged basic writing resources, dictionary, emergency kit, emergency preparedness, how to kill a zombie, humour, preparation, preparation to write, stranded on a desert island, survival, survival kit, survival toolkit, thesaurus, writer's essential toolkit, writers kit, writing basics, zombie, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, zombies
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#WW CSSC Writer Wednesday | Blog the 29th: Living the Dream
Glimmers are great, but not however, accepted as legal currency. Continue reading
Posted in #writerwednesday Laureate, #ww, Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, Interesting Find, Screenplay, Writing
Tagged 4 Hour Work Week, Because We Believe, canadian tenors, carolynne, CSSC, dream, failure, glimmer, kudos, opera, option, pay-or-play, Richard Margison, short screenplay, short script, Tim Ferris, Writing
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition Blogs Good; Wins First Place
The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition’s THE Blog was recently announced as the 1st place winner in the inaugural Schmutzie.com’s Canadian Weblog Awards Literature and Writing category. Continue reading
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Tagged #writerswednesday, #ww, award, blog winning, blogging, Carolynne Ciceri, CSSC, david cormican, dillon andrews, excellent writing, first place, golden sheaf award, good blogging, good writing, great blogging, ninjamatics, Schmutzie.com, Short Film, short film competition, short film script contest, THE Blog, Winner, winning blog, writer’s Wednesday, writers wednesday
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