September 2007
Plotbot: Collaborative Screenwriting Software | plotbot.com
by simon_bricolo
Free web-based screenwriting software that you can use to write/collaborate with as many or as few people as you like
April 2007
February 2007
November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
by jlesage
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
Poynter Online - Writing Tools
by jlesage
50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these
Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon
by jlesage
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon
Senses of Cinema
by jlesage
one of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
by jlesage
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons
by jlesage
another how-to site for a skill useful for film and videomakers' storyboard making
Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com
by jlesage & 4 others
zen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling
Zensufi Park
by jlesage
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by jlesage
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story
by jlesage
one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer
October 2006
Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers
by jlesage
tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing
Guardian Unlimited | Science | DNA discovery may crack old murder cases
by jlesage
news article that gives new plot device to use in crime tv scripts or detective films; new way to interpret old or poor quality DNA samles
SOS: Searching Out Stories - Story-Lovers
by jlesage
exhaustive list of stories, news articles that suggest stories; my favorite: "ANIMALS, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, FISH and INSECTS – stories, folklore and facts"
