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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Padre
• Mike Maples
• Spec scout
• Tracking board
• Jeanne V Bowerman
• Screenwriting tips
• Richard Botto
• Stage 32
• Craft
• Voice
• Writer Arena
• Second act
• Three musketeers
• Adaptations
• Gay Comedy
• Tanya's Tips

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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:

• Writer Arena*
• Plot Control 2.0
• China Moon
• Safe Men
• Greg Williams
• Beats
• Contests to Market Ready
• Through line
• Super Objective
• Scene Objective
• Character Bios
• Tiara-based Editing
• Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath by Linda Seger
• Bates Motel
• Hooks and how to find them
• Low Budget Sci Fi
• Marketing
• The Accomplice
• The Pot Thief Series by Jessie Michael Orenduff
• Seth Green
• Open Road Publishing
• Robert Powers
• Adaptations and Buy Outs
• Hot
• Irony
• Town without Pity

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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:

• 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:

• Brett Martin
• Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope
• Story By Credit
• Great American Pitchfest
• Below Zero
• Signe Olynyk
• Faith-Based
• Two Handed Warriors
• The Disciple Program
• B-Story
• Tragedy and Comedy together
• Collateral
• Developing Ideas
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• A Doll’s Life
• Know your Theme
• Lew Hunter
• stage32.com
• Richard Botto
• sellingyourscreenplay.com
• The Black List
• Acts of Valor
• Blade Runner
• The Sixth Sense
• The B Story
• The Matrix
• Timing
• Craig Clyde

and “Danny Ocean! LMAO Not Billy. Oh, I am so funny! Danny! knew there was a ‘y’ in there….”

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In this edition Babz talks about:

• Craig Clyde
• A Christmas Wish
• Kids Write Right and Write Right by Jan Venolia
• Inanimate Short winner Pen Pal by Rebeka Hay
• Overthinking
• Writing on Spec
• Adaptations
• Jaws
• Why I stopped reading?
• Subtext
• Godfather II
• Big Bang Theory
• Buffy
• How stories grow

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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:

• 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:

• Craig Clyde
• The Chinese General
• Rob Reiner
• Writer’s Digest
• Pigs are Pink
• Surprises
• Queen of the Mist
• Immigrant Immortal
• Documentaries
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• Bob Evans
• Rosemary’s Baby – 7/24/1967 final draft screenplay
• Go ahead make my day
• Point Break and Hurt Locker – Point Break screenplay from AwesomeFilm The Hurt Locker screenplay from Hurt Locker Official Site
• Market Ready
• Story Editing
• Full Moon Morning
• Superman – Youtube clip
• Subtext

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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:

• 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:

• 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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