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"Invisible Ink is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to become a better screenwriter. With elegance and precision, Brian McDonald uses his deep understanding of story and character to pass on essential truths about dramatic writing. Ignore him at your peril." —Jim Taylor (Academy Award?- winning screenwriter of Sideways and Election)

Friday, June 21, 2013

Movies I Like: Double Indemnity

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  “The two most important words in motion pictures are Billy and Wilder” – Alfred Hitchcock “It was a hot afternoon, an...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

What I Learned From Reading E.T.

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  This post was originally written for, and posted at, the Women in Film Seattle site.  Cool organization, check them out. Anyway, in ca...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Shows I Like: The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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Not long ago I read the late legendary comedy writer and teacher  Danny Simon used to show episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show i...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

A Lesson from Andy Griffith

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“If a jokes makes a liar out of the character then lose the joke.” —Andy Griffith We lost a great storyteller last year by the name ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Time Travel: The natural way to tell stories

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  Ever since Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction was released, people have talked in awe about how that film and others have pla...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Movies I Like: Stalag 17

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You can’t beat Billy Wilder —the guy was amazing, so good that it’s almost scary. He was a screenwriter first, and if he had remained a wr...
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Monday, December 03, 2012

Why don’t people ask why?

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  “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee In English we use the wo...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

My Book INK SPOTS is now out.

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This is not so much a blog post as it is an announcement that my new book Ink Spots is now available at Amazon on Kindle and paperback...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

What 33 years of teaching taught Charles Johnson about writing students

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Charles Johnson National Book Award winner and author of Middle Passage  For the first time in the history of The Invisible Ink Blog...
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