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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Why?
• Morphine
• Cliché Finder
• Carson Reeves
• Plot Twists
• WGA Stats
• Coverage
• 43 ways to Finance Your Feature Film by John Cones
• Overview of Film Finance
• The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film by Linda Seger
• How to develop script ideas
• Finding your voice for the page
• We see/We hear
• Tarantino
• Jack Reacher (One Shot)
• The Pot Thief

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Monsters dressed as clowns
• Ego
• Rewriting Cliches
• Ted Newsome
• Robert Powers
• Script: Done
• Script: Handout
• Editing
• Know your monster
• Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger
• Rain Man
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Knights Tale
• Ryan Lee

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• The Dip by Seth Godin
• Christmas Mail
• Old School Hollywood
• “The movie business is not reality it’s a bizarre casino with terrible odds, and pretending that you can win regularly is foolish. Play if you want, but don’t blame yourself for the silly outcomes.”
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Dena (The Box)
• Wedding Band
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• The spell ???? challenge
• Act II
• Synopsis
• Adaptations
• Syd Field – Screenplay
• High Concept
• M. Night
• Golden Moments
• Chronophobia
• 12:00/6:00 Moments
• Ted Newsome
• Everything is possible

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Scams
• Jason Bortz
• Stephen Wells
• Coverage
• Table-Read
• Read-Thru or iScript
• Agency Readers
• You’re the first person to tell me that…
• Q&A the working screenwriter
• Penitent Man
• Brother Mozart
• Long Shadow Woman
• Write the way you talk
• The ish word.
• 17000 days. How to know when to quit.
• Pia Cook
• Bret Martin

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Beating things out
• Silver/Bitela agency
• Ryan Lee
• Pia Cook
• Sacred Romance
• The Artists Way
• Dialogue
• Michael Conelly
• Lee Child
• Late into scene
• Editing
• Craig Clyde
• How do you name your characters?
• page 1, 5, 12
• Scriptshadow (The Master)
• Packaging
• The Descendants
• One Shot
• What scripts sell for…

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Team Viewer
• Business Statement
• How to win friends and influence people
• Career trajectory
• Pia Cook
• Screenplay Readers
• Andrea Sims
• I’m OK you’re OK
• What makes a great story?
• Die Hard
• Script Shadow screenwriter levels
• Mutant Goldfish
• The F Bomb
• Simply Scripts

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Christmas Mail
• Screenwriter’s Cheat Book
• Midnight in Paris
• Captain America
• The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras by Mike “Jessie” Orenduff
• It’s On the Grid
• Write what you know
• Top Production Locations
• The Help
• Exposition
• Backstory
• Scrooge

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Pumpkin Nightmare
• Insidious
• The Crawling Eye
• Joe Downey
• Rhino
• Brett Martin
• Hip-pocketing
• Wets
• Option Heaven/Hell
• Martin Lancaster
• Phil Clarke
• Mafia Dogs
• Tenacity
• Hate Mail
• Grammar
• Courageous
• Why I stop reading
• Contests vs Market-ready
• Writing the second act by Michael Halperin
• The B-story
• The Through-line
• Table reads
• Subtext

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• The Money Line
• Production Assistants
• indiecon.com
• LifeLock
• Simply Scripts
• Web Series (three minute shorts)
• Jim Breuer, I’m not High
• Craig Sabin
• G Anthony

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Pitchfest
• Brett Martin
• Dories
• Some Writers Deserve To Starve by Elaura Niles
• How to Write It, How to Sell It: Everything a Screenwriter Needs to Know About Hollywood by Linda Palmer
• 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader: Writing the Screenplay the Reader Will Recommend by J Lerch
• How to Sell Your Screenplay: A Realistic Guide to Getting a Television or Film Deal by Lydia Wilen
• Fearless
• Theme and Alter Ego
• Kill Bill 1 and 2
• Revolutionary Road
• The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor by Larry Moss
• Hello, He Lied — and Other Tales from the Hollywood Trenches by Lynda Obst
• Trickle-down marketing

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• SellingYourScreenplay.com
• WritingTreatments.com
• Lethal Weapon
• Shutter Island
• Dialogue
• Table Reads
• The Business
• Using Dreams
• How to win friends and influence people
• Inktip Pitch Summit – July 22 at the Marriott in Burbank, California, USA

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Simply Radio
• Editing
• Creative Screenwriting
• Character Sketches
• Jack Nicholson
• Cinderella
• Ryan Lee – Beyond the Mountain
• Martin Lancaster – Open Your Mind
• Greg Baldwin – The Scorsese Club
• 101 Things I Learned in Film School
• Black Swan
• Lady Luck
• Market Ready

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Writer’s block
• Full Moon Morning
• 101 things I learned in film school – site
• The B Story
• Legally Blonde
• Save the Cat
• French Kiss
• Loglines
• The Invisible Fence

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Timing and Tone
• Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz
• Waiting
• A Christmas Carol
• Fame and Success
• Things to Come
• Tron and Tron Legacy
• Props
• Inception
• Kurosawa
• Viral Media
• The Art of Regifting
• Babz Black List
  • Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz – “Hannible Lector-esque without the Hanible Lector weirdness”
  • Long Shadow Woman by Craig Clyde – Turn of the century Arizona. An outcast woman and a wounded Apache boy. One will teach. One will learn. Both will change.
  • LazerBladers by Robert Powers
  • Clause 13 by Craig Savin
  • Queen of the Mist by Richard Broadhurst

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Pitches
• Rewrites
• Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read
• Babz wants a Vampire movie (after you listen to the podcast, send to babzbuzz@gmail.com with the subject Vampire Scripts.
• Inktip Pitchfest
• How to Sell Your Screenplay: A Realistic Guide to Getting a Television or Film Deal
• One-Sheet
• Bad Penguin
• “John Cahill” actually is Joseph Cahill in reference to his script Shades Within

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Tales From the Script
• Bad Penquin
• 26 Screenwriter Cheats
• The Writers Way
• Characters and Fairytales
• Ever After: A Cinderella Story
• Comedy Contest (see below)
• Full Moon Morning
• Kevin Spacey
• Fart Jokes
• Princess Bride 1987 shooting draft by William Goldman (courtesy of DailyScript)
• Save the Cat
• Blake Snyder
• Progressive Commercial
• Through lines and Character Arcs
• Aliens May, 28, 1985 First Draft screenplay by James Cameron (courtesy of HorrorLair.com)

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