Gadget Archive 3

Blog of Week
Screenwriting Basics
For those with the screenplay bug, a one-stop aggregator of useful articles, blogs, comments, books for the wannabes among us.

Writers on Writing
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,…”
Emily Dickinson

Nice Openings
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning – fresh as if issued to children on a beach.”
From Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway

RasoirJ’s Movie Notes
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) *****
Still fabulous after all these years. A movie fan's movie. Funny as hell, with wonderful acting in every part. Producer Warren Beatty and director Arthur Penn deserve all their glory.

Good Reads
NaNoWriMo: First-Aid Pack for Needy Characters
Cranking out a novel in November means 1,667 words a day. That leaves no time to ponder when one of your characters fails to come alive. Marg McAlister has some practical advice for how to freshen them up.
Suite 101

Favorite Words
Pentimento – “Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible in some pictures, to see the original line: a tree will show through a woman’s dress….That is called pentimento because the painter “repented,” changed his mind.” From Lillian Hellman’s memoir Pentimento