Kent Williams: Attorney (non-entertainment) and screenwriter in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mike Chinea
How do you control your characters?

Has anyone has ever had characters who just want to do what they want? That might be a rhetorical question. After many rewrites in order to accommodate changing cast and budget I’ve ended up with characters doing their own thing and wandering off the story. We start shooting in six weeks and time is running out.

Tito Germaine 'Ontherise' Ellis

You control your characters by directing them Into good actors...

Trey Wickwire

I know what you mean, I have little control over my characters. I find it best to just know all I can about them so that the directions they take make sense to me. I let them lead me to the story.

Leon Reaper

@Mark souza Thanks for the laugh XD, that was great! haha

Ian Lynch
The first step...

I’m out of college a year. I’ve been writing and studying screenwriting for nearly three years now. I’ve nearly finished my fourth feature script. My first three scripts were decent concepts that were horribly executed, as you'd expect with a newbie writer. But with my fourth script, I feel like I’v...

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Danny Manus

Ian, it sounds like you're on the right track. My best advice is - you're young, you're hungry, you presumably are not married or have kids yet - MOVE TO LA! Get a job in the industry, try being an as...

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William Martell

Query managers (most are open to new writers, unlike agents)... and try not to think of the day job as soul crushing. I drove a forklift for 10 years and it was just what had to be done to pay the bil...

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Doug Nelson

Ian – Fortunately, screenwriting is still legal and once smitten, it’s addictive to many. You sound like one of the addicts and you must do whatever it takes to appease that addiction. An’ remember, i...

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Michael Ray Davis
New award for "Come Morning"

Kinda stoked, got the "Charles B. Pierce" award for outstanding feature. Derrick Sims directed, I star. Small budget magic.

Kent Williams

Congratulations Michael! That's awesome.

Tomasz Mieczkowski

Congrats Michael! The trailer looks and sounds amazing. I'd love to see it and you in it. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HiJQoYNsbKk

Ami Brown

Great job!

Jim Arnold
Log or tag?

Received feedback from a written pitch, which stated I had given a tagline instead of a logline. Can somebody define the difference for me?

Jim Arnold

Thanks Alle. All cleat

Jim Arnold

CLEAR

Lina Jones

Good to know

Kent Williams

Hi Philip, thanks for the connection. Also, congrats on making the Story Pros finals, and good luck this competition season!

Philip Sedgwick

Thank you, Kent, for the kudos and the connection. Best in your writing adventures!

Portia Chellelynn

Thanks for the connection! :)

Philip Sedgwick

Absolutely! And back at you. Great collection of pics. Very wide range.

Portia Chellelynn

Thank-you!

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Kent. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As an actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work and attracting attention to their projects. That's why we created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 250,000+ members strong representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth. This is a network for you, built by you. Like most things in life, the more you participate, the greater the rewards. We ask all new members pay i...

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