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Everything I understand about being a working screenwriter, I learned from writing TV movies. I'm Lauren Greenwood and I'd love to share what I've learned about story, screenwriting, filmmaking and the film biz with you.
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Finding Your Artistic Voice as a Screenwriter (opens the original)
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When I used to think about death, I’d convince myself that if I just thought about it in the right way, I could find some kind of little-known loophole. I had a call recently with a novice screenwriter who was looking for similar loopholes in the craft of screenwriting. I had to disappoint and reveal that it takes a decade of dedication to become a good screenwriter. Add another decade to become an excellent one. Another disappointment was revealing that it takes a year to write a screenplay, lo
An Approach to Screenwriting When You’re Feeling Stuck (opens the original)
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What’s your favourite part about screenwriting? During a workshop I hosted a few months ago, I made an offhand remark that really stuck with . I said that when I’m writing, my favourite part is feeling like I’m hanging out with my characters. Shawn told me that this idea was helpful to him and asked me to unravel it a little more in a future post. So, here we are!People love to hang out with characters. We all have our favourite shows we return to episode after episode to spend time with them. W
Read This Before You Write Your Next Thriller (opens the original)
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It’s the second week of September and summer is officially over. I can tell because I’m getting replies back to my emails and my agent is calling me with news again. It’s also TIFF! I’m seeing a few films this year: EVERYTIME, MY WIFE CRIES, STUFFED and one of the Short Cuts program screenings (I’ve gotta see what kind of a short film it takes to get into TIFF nowadays…)I too am back from my short summer hiatus. I’ve been working on my directorial debut feature FOUR DEAD ALL DAY (more on that in
Sneak peek: trailer for SWATHE, my directorial debut short (opens the original)
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I know I said I was taking the month of August off to reset and focus on my writing projects, BUT, I wanted to quickly share something exciting with you! On Wednesday night, writer/director/actor/editor/allaroundgreatguy Aaron Strand (who goes by ) had the Canadian premiere of his debut feature WITHDRAWAL and asked me to do the introduction. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0Ti!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
It's not goodbye, it's smell you later. (opens the original)
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Dear Subscribers, I’m taking the month of August away from posting on Substack to write and recharge. I’m currently writing: A sci-fi thriller feature sample (pantsing)A body horror (plotting)A TBD - My directorial debut feature! (pantsing)A TV movie rom com sample (plotting)I never write just one script at a time. I prefer to bounce between a few different scripts because working on one will often inspire something or unpick a knot in another. In the summer when you have kiddos it can be especi
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