Scrawl S4E7: Tom Puts on His Writing Shorts May 29, 2012

Warning: The audio content below is both entertaining and informative. Listen at your discretion.

Have you ever seen a movie and thought Hey, I can do that! Well according to Tom, you can!  On this episode of Scrawl, Tracey joins the guys in a fabulous discussion about screenwriting.  We talk about what screenwriting is, how it functions, as well as what should and should not be included in a screenplay.  Tom gives his advice on what works and what doesn’t, and Tracey and Robert talk about their recent introduction to the genre.  Toward the end of the program, Tom puts on his writing shorts as the gang does a table read of one of his original screenplays Pinewood.

 

If you enjoy writing screenplays, have ever thought about writing screenplays, or just plain love movies and television shows and want to know more about how they are written, this is the episode for you!

 

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A prescription for the flustered writer who strives for “little animal icons”: 750words.com November 14, 2011

Does anyone use 750words.com?

I came across an article in the Writing Lab Newsletter this week that explains and discusses the “web-based application.” Jackie Grutsch McKinney from Ball State University claims, “[750words.com] has made a daily writer out of me when nothing else has.” “Geek in the Center” explains the site’s utility and includes an interview with its founder, Buster Benson.

Scrawl Call June 22, 2011

Ever wanted to do a reading or performance of your work for a live audience? Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, song, script or screenplay? Scrawl—the UCWbL’s own radio show—is calling for pieces of all these varieties (and more, if you have something in mind) to be read live on air at DePaul’s radio station on Fridays, during Scrawl’s block starting at 11am.