MITCH ROBERTSON #3: THE UNHAPPY MEDIUM: When the "Psychic To The Stars" private files, with dirt on everyone in Hollywood, are stolen, Mitch must find them before the blackmail begins! The Psychic? His wife? His mistress? One of his famous clients? amzn.to/49og7RN #booksky #ad #writing #scriptsky

30 Days Of Holiday Book Plugs: POISON IN PICKENSBURG by Ron Peer. The mayor is dead, the suspects are weird, and detective Brian Dawson's ex-wife keeps showing up at crime scenes. amzn.to/4s5FfEe #Bookplug #booksky #filmsky

Film Courage Plus: RESEARCHING A SCREENPLAY. How much research is enough? How much is too much? Research first or after you've written the screenplay? All of your research questions answered! sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.com/2020/07/film... #writing #scriptsky #screenwriting #filmsky

30 Days Of Book Plugs: STRANGE CASE OF THE PHARAOH’S HEART by Timothy Miller When Lord Carnarvon dies unexpectedly, barely two months after opening the tomb of Tutankhamun, Holmes and Watson investigate. a.co/d/bifNUhy #ad #writing #scriptsky #books

On This Day In Film History - December 10, 2013 - While in custody, Bob Taylor draws an intricate maze and then kills himself in PRISONERS... leaving Dt. Loki without a lead to the missing girls. amzn.to/4iLJbpq #scriptchat #amwriting #writing #filmsky #screenplays #screenwriting #scriptsky

Writing A Low Budget Genre Script To Sell? WRITE IT, FILM IT! Making Your Own Movie? Writing An Indie Film? Writing A Made For TV Holiday Movie? This book shows you how to write for budget! $7.99. a.co/d/8yvjRvN #amwriting #writing #filmsky #screenplays #scriptsky #ad

Can you make this 63% funnier? Hey, what if they're cowboys? This all male submarine movie needs a sex scene - but not a Gay one! Do the ghosts have to be dead people? www.scriptsecrets.net/meme/Writer6... #screenwriting #writing #filmsky #scriptsky

One of my favorite commercials when I was a kid. I still ask "What's in the bag, Goose?" sometimes. youtu.be/JlyzY139Wfg?... One of the things about "bumper sticker dialogue" for your script is - can people use it in real life after seeing the movie? "Go ahead, make my day." #scriptsky #writing

BAD Reality show ideas ... Truck Stop Restroom. Extreme Makeover: Sock Drawer Edition. America's Top Monkey Cage Cleaners. Biggest Loser: Bladder Control Edition. Your favorite bad reality show?

Film Courage Plus: HOW TO WRITE FAST! There are crazy deadlines in screenwriting - and you MUST make them! There's a crew waiting for your screenplay - on the clock! Here are tips and techniques! sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.com/2020/07/film... #scriptsky #filmsky #scriptsecrets #amwriting #writing

Film Courage Plus: The 100 Idea Theory. You don't want to write the first idea you come up with, you want to write the BEST idea you come up with! Welcome to THUNDERDOME! 100 ideas enter... sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.com/2020/07/film... #writing #filmsky #scriptsky #books

30 Days Of Holiday Book Plugs: THE CORNISH CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME MURDER by Fiona Leitch. I have read all of these! Jodie caters a local Holiday play where a cast member is murdered. Twists, fun, and a great ending. a.co/d/8KFUmFn #BookPlugs #writing #Scriptsky #ad

Today I begin the rewrites on this novel... While one of my novellas is #20 in Hardboiled Mystery on Amazon. It's also free for Cyber Monday, which explains that ranking.

Monday's Script Tip: Manchester By The Three. We look at the Character Specific Dialogue, Using Character Mystery, and Unusual Resolution Methods in Oscar Winning MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip106.... #books #writing #filmsky #scriptchat #scriptsky

NEW! THE SHOTGUN APPROACH. A Pop Star is murdered on the VIP floor of a luxury hotel. SFPD Homicide Inspector Shelly Steele must find the killer. His ex-Partner? His ex-Wife? His ex-Record Label Owner? 105 pgs! FREE TODAY! #20 Hardboiled Amazon! a.co/d/cign3UD #writing #filmsky #booksky #ad

30 Days Of Holiday Book Plugs: THE CORNISH CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME MURDER by Fiona Leitch. I have read all of these! Jodie caters a local Holiday play where a cast member is murdered. Twists, fun, and a great ending. a.co/d/8KFUmFn #BookPlugs #writing #Scriptsky #ad

30 Days Of Holiday Book Plugs: CRUEL BOUNTY by Robert Gregory Browne. Just read this one. If Travis McGee was an ex-cop traveling the country helping people - Millionaire murdered in Maine, innocent woman framed, Jefferson Shaw must find the killer. a.co/d/69UJUTC #BookPlugs #scriptsky #ad

Um... #1 right now? Better get #3 rewritten and up before the end of the year! Oh, FREE is the reason for its success. www.amazon.com/Through-Ring... #scriptsky #filmsky #writing #booksky

My novella is #52 on Amazon's Hard Boiled Mysteries list! (Because it's FREE today?) www.amazon.com/Shotgun-Appr... #books #writing #filmsky

30 Days Of Holiday Book Plugs: CLARE AT 18 by Don Roff. The riveting sequel to Clare at Sixteen (made in the film Saint Clare with Bella Thorne and Rebecca De Mornay), and Clare at Seventeen… “Clare goes to Hollywood to ‘make a killing’.” amzn.to/4f83X05 #BookPlugs #scriptsky #ad

Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sale! Story In Action series - 99 cents! Vintage screenwriting #1 - FREE! Fiction- FREE! Hitchcock Books - Countdown sale starts Saturday at 99 cents, goes up $1 a day! More Info: sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.com/2021/03/stim... #scriptsky #Filmsky #amwriting #booksky #ad

FREE! 25 years ago Senator Milano killed a man. Now he's one of a dozen suspects in an information leak. Can he solve the crime before they discover his secret? A FINE UPSTANDING CITIZEN (CRIME TIME THRILLER) 86 pgs amzn.to/3AVvyCp #amwriting #mystery #thriller #crime #ad

NEW! Thursday's Script Tip: A CAST OF THOUSANDS? Let's say you have 100 16-18 year old young men competing in THE LONG WALK... how do you create that many different characters? How to use the story to find 100 different characters! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip389.... #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way." I love this line from today's movie because it's a 2+2, you let the audience solve the obvious equation. #scripysky #filmsky

Wednesday's Script Tip: You Can't Do That In A Movie! Waking up the reader with a shocking scene that breaks all of the rules (which don't exist). We look at a French film that became a USA mega-hit! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip373.... #scriptsky #filmsky

“Anyone would think our girls look forward to a grand inheritance. When you die, our girls will be left without a roof to their head nor a penny to their name.” From today's movie. #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

It's just one damned word after another! If you want to be a writer, you have to write. Constantly. And when you aren't writing, you are thinking about writing. A lot of paperwork! www.scriptsecrets.net/meme/Writer3... #screenwriting #writing #filmsky #amwriting #scriptsky #scriptsecrets

"Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking." From today's movie, it seems topical. #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

On This Day In Film History - November 5, 2029 - Skynet sends the Terminator back to start Judgement Day in 1997. amzn.to/3JMxsKg #ad #filmsky #scriptsky

"I'm not strong enough!" "And this will make you stronger? That's what this is? Some sort of workout?" "I can't lose you again! I can't. Not again. I'm not strong enough." "If we work together, you won't have to be." #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

“They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.” Remember who this was about? From today's movie. #filmsky #scriptsky #writing

Monday's Script Tip: CHANGE UP! GENRE! We look at how PLANE (2023) keeps changing subgenres to prevent being predictable. Disaster movie to Hostage Rescue to Action flick! A great tool for your story! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip36.htm #screenwriting #film #amwriting #scriptchat #scriptsecrets

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Every year I write new (or rewrite) Script Tip articles on my website. There are over 400 - but some are in the garage waiting for repairs. Working on a couple of new ones for November. SNOWBALL! and SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE, maybe a couple of others. Free.

Forgot: Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221.... #writing #filmsky #scriptsky

Thursday's Script Tip: BACKGROUND TO DANGER! You are writing a horror script (or pick your genre), how do you make yours different? Set it in an interesting world! A female Pop Star with a famous boyfriend? SMILE 2! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip384.... #writing #filmsky #screenwriting #scriptsky

“Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch it. Who could have predicted that a free people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a box with pictures?” Today's film quote. #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

"I rolled into town in a $250,000 vehicle named after one of the fastest animals on earth." "A Jaguar XKE?" "Guess again..." It's National Cat Day. #scriptsky #filmsky #booksky

NEW! Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221.... #writing #filmsky #scriptsky

16 years ago my films invaded the UK, and were completely unavoidable if you were watching the Movies For Men channel. Once again, I am sorry for that! A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days! #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

You could never make a horror movie about something as boring as Text To Speech ... www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tex... #writing #scriptsky #filmsky

Today, back to work on my Sunday fiction project STEEL TRAP... With a lost outline for this chapter. #writing

Released on this date in 1966 Billy Wilder's blacker than black comedy THE FORTUNE COOKIE starring Lemon & Matthau... Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date. youtu.be/3PTtQLQgaO0?... #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

And you deserve the big hairy ones... not those little tiny ones! #filmsky #scriptsky #writing

Try to avoid "still lifes" - if characters are just talking, get them walking! www.scriptsecrets.net/meme/Writer1... #scriptsky #filmsky #amwriting #writing #screenwriting #scriptsecrets

"You know what dirty money is? That's the kind of money you can't declare on your income tax. Well, when certain people get that kind of money, what they do is send it out of the country to invest, and when it comes back, it's clean." From a film released on this date. #filmsky #scriptsky #books

On this date in 1862 Auguste Lumière, the French filmmaker who made the very first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) was born in Besançon, France. youtu.be/bFb2BeOaWak?... I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision. #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

Always great when the flagship book climbs back into Amazon's Top 100 Screenwriting Books (Kindle)! It's like an old man finishing in the top 100 in a marathon. The first printing of the paperback was 1998! #filmsky #scriptsky #writing #books

On This Day In Film History - October 18, 1982 - Harry Grimbridge attends a merchant's council meeting in HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH. amzn.to/3IUDHeN Time to put on our masks... #scriptsky #filmsky #writing

Tuesday's Script Tip: PITCHING YOUR TAKE! Your great horror screenplay gets you the chance to write the sequel CUTTING CLASS 2! Brad Pitt is back! What's your sequel story? Pitch your take! www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip167.... #screenwriting #filmsky #amwriting #scriptsky #scriptsecrets