I like presentations. Let me correct that. I like good presentations. People seem to have finally woken up and realize that good presenting requires a good story (and no bullet points).
Presentation Zen, both the book and blog, utilize the visual power PowerPoint/Keynote provide to make presentations better.
Of course you don’t have to be a Venture [...]

Thursday we had to read off outlines based on our pitches. The outlines are a bulleted list of important plot points you need your script to have. Most were within scope, at least time wise. It seems there will be a lot of guns and violence in the screenings next spring. But others still seemed [...]

A nice list of idea killers. Probably intended for business folk, but it all applies in the writer’s room. Though I guess laughter would be good if you’re writing a comedy.
Berkun blog >> Idea killers: ways to stop ideas

The Bard scores one point today as Discovery.com reports:
A computational fingerprint that uniquely characterizes William Shakespeare’s writing style is helping dispel any lingering doubts that he penned his own plays.
The method could serve as a literary device to analyze not only plays attributed to Shakespeare but anonymous or controversial writings by other authors.
Discovery.com >> Analysis: [...]

I tried googling the script revision colors but couldn’t quite find a site that had them all listed. So here they are, all eight colors, some with names you’d think they pulled from a Crayola box. And remember, this is mainly for production, after the script is locked and changes are made. White away when [...]