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Get Reel with Richard Walter
Musings about film and life from UCLA professor Richard Walter. richardwalter.substack.com
Writing Mistakes That Amateur Screenwriters Make - Part II
10 mins; January 25, 2023
Writing Mistakes That Amateur Screenwriters Make - Part I
10 mins; January 24, 2023
Genre Shmenrah
9 mins; January 21, 2023
The Greatest Film of All Time - Part II
10 mins; January 18, 2023
The Greatest Film of All Time - Really?
10 mins; January 09, 2023
The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part II
10 mins; January 06, 2023
The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part I
10 mins; December 24, 2022
How to Be a Professional Screenwriter
12 mins; December 17, 2022
Is Writer's Block Real?
9 mins; December 13, 2022
Why See a Movie Twice?
10 mins; December 07, 2022
What Is the Ultimate Purpose of Storytelling, If There Is One?
11 mins; December 06, 2022
A Key to Great Screenwriting: Keep It Personal
10 mins; November 16, 2022
Three Cheers for Judas Iscariot
10 mins; November 15, 2022
Should We Ban Smoking in Movies?
10 mins; November 10, 2022
What Peace In the Middle East Can Teach Us About Screenwriting
10 mins; November 09, 2022
Should I Reverse-Engineer My Screenplay Around an Ending, a Scene, or an Emotion?
9 mins; November 04, 2022
One of the Biggest Amateur Screenwriting Mistake: Making Your Villains Villainous
9 mins; November 02, 2022
How Much Technology Does a Screenwriter Really Need?
11 mins; November 01, 2022
Are Commercial Movies Pure Garbage?
11 mins; October 27, 2022
How to Nail a Query Letter to Agents
10 mins; October 26, 2022
Should I Write My Next Screenplay By Hand?
10 mins; October 24, 2022
How the Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation Can Help Screenwriters
10 mins; October 21, 2022
Is Citizen Kane Actually a Great Movie?
10 mins; October 18, 2022
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
11 mins; October 17, 2022
The Process Is What Separates screenwriters from Screenwriters
11 mins; October 14, 2022
Are High Concept Ideas Overrated?
9 mins; October 12, 2022
Screenwriters: Nothing Is Better Than Something
11 mins; October 06, 2022
Finance 101 for Writers
11 mins; October 04, 2022
Film Dialogue Shouldn't Sound Like Real Life
9 mins; October 01, 2022
Whether You're A Writer, Director, or Actor... Little Things Mean a Lot
10 mins; September 30, 2022
As A Screenwriter, Is "Save the Cat" Worth Following?
12 mins; September 24, 2022
Can You Really Teach Screenwriting?
11 mins; September 19, 2022
The Auteur Theory Is Pure Bull$hit
10 mins; September 16, 2022
What is the Purpose of Stories and Movies?
9 mins; September 06, 2022
The Birmingham Cop
9 mins; September 05, 2022
Embrace the Creative Process
10 mins; September 03, 2022
Seven Naughty Words in Hollywood That You Should Absolutely Embrace
10 mins; September 02, 2022
Authenticity in Film is Boring
10 mins; August 29, 2022
Can Screenwriting Books Guide Novel Writing?
11 mins; August 27, 2022
The Backstory to American Graffiti
11 mins; August 24, 2022
What's the Secret to Training So Many Oscar-Winning Screenwriters?
9 mins; August 12, 2022
Want to Write A Better Movie? Think Like a Real Estate Agent
12 mins; August 05, 2022
How Accurate Do Screenwriters Need to Be When Writing Screenplays Based on True Stories?
11 mins; August 03, 2022
In the Age of Mass Shootings, Should We Still Have Guns in Movies?
9 mins; July 29, 2022
After 50 Years in Screenwriting, Here Are the Two Questions I Still Never Answer
10 mins; July 27, 2022
Bashing Hollywood Is Wildly Overrated
9 mins; June 30, 2022
Should Dialogue Have a Structure Like Screenplays?
9 mins; June 23, 2022
What's More Important - Story or Theme?
10 mins; June 17, 2022
The Delete Key Is A Writer's Best Friend
10 mins; June 16, 2022
Should Screenwriters Read Shakespeare?
10 mins; June 09, 2022
Overlapping Dialogue
10 mins; June 08, 2022
Hired, Fired, Hired Again - A Hollywood Yarn About Trusting the Process
10 mins; June 03, 2022
Adapting Your Own Screenplay As a Novel
10 mins; June 01, 2022
A Safe Space
10 mins; May 17, 2022
Diversity In Screenwriting
11 mins; May 16, 2022
How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 2
10 mins; May 13, 2022
How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 1
9 mins; May 12, 2022
How Many Characters Should I Have in My Screenplay?
9 mins; May 03, 2022
Do the Pentagon and CIA Fund War Films to Inculturate Americans?
10 mins; May 02, 2022
The Two Questions I've Never Answered
9 mins; April 26, 2022
Violence in Screenplays
9 mins; April 24, 2022
Is It Better to Outline My Screenplay or Just Start Writing?
10 mins; April 22, 2022
The Power of Non-Violence In Life and Movies
10 mins; April 13, 2022
Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
10 mins; April 11, 2022
Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
10 mins; April 08, 2022
The Slap Heard 'Round the World
10 mins; April 05, 2022
The Science of Storytelling (Part 2)
9 mins; April 04, 2022
Is There A Science to Storytelling?
9 mins; March 23, 2022
Should I Box Myself In By Picking A Genre Or Just Start Writing?
9 mins; March 22, 2022
The Importance of Great Endings
10 mins; March 19, 2022
Screenwriting Books
10 mins; March 17, 2022
Should I Copyright My Screenplay?
10 mins; March 10, 2022
What Is the Absolute Minimum, Maximum, and Ideal Length of a Screenplay?
10 mins; March 07, 2022
Screenwriting Word You Need to Know: GOOYOW
9 mins; March 03, 2022
When Execs/Producers/Directors Ruin Good Screenwriting
10 mins; March 02, 2022
How to Ramp Up the Energy of Your Screenplay By Using Better Locations
10 mins; February 25, 2022
The Pros and Cons of Prologues and Flashbacks in Screenwriting
10 mins; February 23, 2022
My Screenplays Get Optioned But Never Sell. What Should I Do?
11 mins; February 21, 2022
Stereotypes Will Ruin Your Script
8 mins; February 18, 2022
The Worst Writing Job I Ever Had
10 mins; February 13, 2022
How to Stay Excited While Writing Screenplays
9 mins; February 11, 2022
Writer's Block
9 mins; February 10, 2022
The Two Best Lines of Dialogue I've Ever Heard
10 mins; February 09, 2022
What Was the Worst Script of 2021?
10 mins; January 28, 2022
The Scariest Movies I Have Ever Seen
9 mins; January 26, 2022
The Most Interesting Screenwriter I've Ever Met
8 mins; January 21, 2022
How Can Screenwriters Avoid Leaving Out Necessary Plot Points?
9 mins; January 20, 2022
Hollywood Hoaxes That Screenwriters Need to Know
9 mins; January 13, 2022
How Do You Know When Your Script is Ready?
10 mins; January 07, 2022
Should I Use the N-Word in My Screenplay?
9 mins; December 30, 2021
Should Screenwriters Describe Characters or Leave It to Casting?
10 mins; December 28, 2021
Should My Story Be a Novel or Screenplay?
10 mins; December 26, 2021
Don't Let Perfection Destroy Your Screenwriting Ambitions
9 mins; December 23, 2021
Screenwriters: You Need a Teacher
8 mins; December 16, 2021
When To Give Up on Screenwriting
10 mins; December 14, 2021
The Narcissism of Hollywood Screenwriters
9 mins; December 04, 2021
If You Don't Care About What You're Writing, Why Would Anyone Else?
9 mins; December 03, 2021
Directors Yell "Action!" Not "Description!"
10 mins; December 02, 2021
People In Positions of Authority Don't Know What They're Talking About
9 mins; December 01, 2021
Backup Girl
10 mins; November 25, 2021
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