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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Script Hub
• Success stories
• Ladyhawke
• Music
• The Editor
• Surprise
• The Revenant
• Copyright
• Franchises
• Agents

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• What Babz wants
• The end game
• Editing
• Reverse Engineering

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Pitches
• Jeanne Bowerman
• Ed Beach
• Vince Flynn * Babz apologizes for saying Vince Vaughn.
• Mitch Rapp
• Writing action
• Protecting your rights
• Getting Paid
• Agents
• Studio System
• Marketing
• Story structure
• Visual Screenwriting
• Winning the lottery
• Microbudget

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Steve Wells
• Coverage
• Wordsmithing
• Tracking Board
• Networking
• Press Releases
• Marketing
• Market-Ready
• Dollar Options
• Facebook
• Nova
• Chris Lockhart
• Scapple
• The Biz

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Pitching
• Copyright
• Rules for writers
• Sci-Fi
• Tracking Board
• Wild Strawberry Films
• Micro budget features
• Why Agents?
• Notes
• Mission statement
• Transition and exposition
• Subtext
• Usual Suspects
• Pacific Rim Discuss this show here.
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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:

• 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:

• Lynn Christensen
• Jeannie Bowerman
• Tenacity
• Market-Ready
• Taste
• Done Deal Pro
• Screenplay Readers
• Save the Cat Software
• George Clooney
• Horror
• Django Unchained
• Zombie Playground
• One Shot
• AMC Show Notes
• Layers
• Ryan Lee
• Martin Lancaster

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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:

• Mock pitch
• Action
• Dirty Dozen
• Lee Marvin
• Tenacity
• Skeezer
• Characters
• Super 8
• Market-Ready
• Throw Mama from a Train
• Tower Theatre

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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:

• Crow Recipes
• Narrative Tug vs White space
• Black Swan October 5, 2009 shooting draft script written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John J. McLaughlin (hosted by RainDance)
• Fast Read
• Open Your Mind
• FastScreenplay.com
• The Missing Ingredient
• The Hook
• Creative Trajectory
• Page Count
• Uncredited Work
• Sphere of Influence
• What do agents do?
• BabzHeist – Babz challenges you to write a Heist script.
  The lower the budget the better. The challenge is open ended. The titles of all entries must be prefixed with the word BabzHeist.
• Onthevergitis: (un-thuh-verg-eye-tus) Noun – the condition which can occur when writers live and die by the sale of a particular script. This condition has been known to create at least anxiety, and in some cases extreme inertia, paranoia, envy, jealousy and inactivity. Suggested treatments: socializing, networking, attending events and classes, helping others, writing more, conducting or participating in table reads, acting classes, directing class audits and most importantly living a balanced life, to name a few.

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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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