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		<title>Daybreakers &#8211; Broken Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daybreakers: What went wrong?
Last night some friends and I went to see the new movie Daybreakers. Honestly, I&#8217;m a little sick of vampires, but I wanted to see what they did with it. 
Daybreakers is the vision of the Spierig brothers. With the 1940s style costuming and vampire friendly environment you feel like you&#8217;re seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arlen Faber and the Hero&#8217;s Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on the film The Answer Man by John Hindman: Fathers as theme and the Monomyth.]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Scissorhands &#8211; still the best Christmas movie ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so technically, it&#8217;s probably not considered a Christmas movie, but I put it in my catalog of fun things to watch around Christmas time. 
Here&#8217;s the original trailer:

Here&#8217;s some making of clips about the film&#8217;s birth:

Part 2

An excellent interview with the screenwriter Caroline Thompson:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/olague_robert/caroline_thompson.php
I couldn&#8217;t find the original script, but I did find a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns and character behavior based on the hero’s goal structure.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShawnScarber</dc:creator>
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[It should be noted that most of this is derived from work done by Michael Hauge's Screenwriting for Hollywood]. The character types and goals are his, the patterns are something I derived. The patterns are flexible and shouldn&#8217;t be considered an exhaustive resource.
The following are the most common external goals:
EG.A) Hero’s goal is to win [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorming map</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the start of a mind map I&#8217;m working on. Its purpose is to help me make sure I&#8217;ve covered all the things I feel are important to get a complete story covered. This is a little too verbose for something like a short story, but would be ideal for a shorter novel or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting? Yep, screenwriting.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShawnScarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the day before Thanksgiving. I should be getting ready to go to the day job where I’m fighting with my antique operating system to load a stupid service pack so I can get magic application development. 
What have I been doing with myself lately?
Well, the novel was fail. Total fail. Why didn’t I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Hitchcock Quote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut [originally found this on Mystery Man on Film's old blog]
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking.’ When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialog only when it’s impossible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShawnScarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great weekend at the David Farland workshop. I learned a lot about the publishing industry that I didn&#8217;t know or understand before. I now feel armed with a few more tools.
This is not a class for beginners. We went over the process of writing, a little, but most of the material we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t sleep, so I&#8217;ll post to the blog</title>
		<link>http://www.shawn-scarber.com/cant-sleep-so-ill-post-to-the-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited about this weekend. I&#8217;m spending it in the company of best-selling author David Farland. I&#8217;m attending one of his workshops. This one is called “Write that Novel!” which seems pretty much perfect for me. I have totally stalled on War Dogs of Mars&#8217; progress. 
This looks like a comprehensive course. I&#8217;m going in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShawnScarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar
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