SHAULA EVANS

Inspiration & Support for Writers

This week we’re going to look for story ideas based on your character’s situation: specifically, trapping a character.

Idea Factory Writing Prompt #6

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on January 22, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 22, 2015)

Carbolic Soap — How does your character smell? You may never have asked yourself this question, but there are four reasons why you should.

How Does Your Character Smell?

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged character development five senses smell on January 22, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 21, 2015)

“What motivates me is to try to pick films that would affect the audience emotionally: to make them happy; but sometimes I want to surprise […]

Short film advice from Cannes’ Alice Kharoubi

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged screenwriting short films on January 21, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 20, 2015)

Piranhaconda — Four steps from screenwriter Brad Wilke for writing better treatments:

Brad Wilke’s Method for Writing Treatments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged prep screenwriting story summaries treatments on January 20, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 17, 2015)

Illustration of young African-American boy in a red cape sitting on a chalk outline of a body by Louisa Bertman — Cinema has the power to make what is unfamiliar familiar. It can take us to galaxies far, far away, and even there, amongst aliens and […]

Creating & Negating Empathy

This entry was posted in Diversity Writing on January 19, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 20, 2015)

I’m on the road in some heavy travel this week amidst a fair bit of chaos so the idea of disruption is on my mind […]

Idea Factory Writing Prompt #5

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on January 16, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 15, 2015)

tree full of bunches of coconuts — In the garden of gentle sanity, may you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Thunk!

This entry was posted in Creativity on January 15, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 2, 2015)

Wouldn’t it be amazing to get a message with writing advice from your future self?

Advice from Your Future Self

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged literary citizenship writing advice on January 14, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on January 12, 2015)

Clockwork at the Liverpool World Museum — Why would you take the time to write a detailed story summary like a treatment rather than jump into writing the main work? Especially if […]

Four Reasons to Write a Treatment

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged prep screenwriting story summaries treatments on January 13, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 17, 2015)

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