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In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration)...
5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 13
Weekly Question: What does 'Star Wars' mean to you?
Q&A: Filmmaker Lena Waithe Has Made It to the Emerald City
When Thor Became the Strongest Avenger
What '5AM StoryTalk's' First Year on Substack Taught Me
Weekly Question: What's your favorite film with an open ending?
How to Survive Your Biggest Mistakes as an Artist
'Civil War' Highlights a Growing Divide in American Culture...and Not in the Way You Think
Weekly Question: What are some of your favorite short stories?
Q&A: Screenwriter Dara Resnik Is Living Out Loud
10 Screenplays by the Great Walter Hill to Download and Study
Sometimes a Staircase Is Just a Staircase...or Is It?
Weekly Question: What's the best film you've ever seen about writers?
Q&A: Screenwriter VJ Boyd Knows How to Make You Squirm
15 Tracking Shots to Blow Your F@cking Mind
Is This the Greatest Tracking Shot in Film History?
5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 12
Weekly Question: What comic book made you fall in love with reading comics?
Q&A: Comics Legend Mark Waid Still Believes a Man Can Fly
I Want to Break Free (From Your Lies)
15 Iconic '90s Pilot Scripts to Download and Study
Weekly Question: How do you find and foster creative inspiration as an artist?
How to Find That Sweet, Sweet Creative Inspiration
Indiana Jones and the Lesson of New Perspectives
Weekly Question: What '90s indie film changed your life the most?
Q&A: Producer Ted Hope Wants a New Indie Revolution
Holy F@ck, 5AM StoryTalk Just Published Its 200th Article!
Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' Script Blows Up All the Rules
Weekly Question: What great work of fine art would you steal?
Writer-Director John Lee Hancock Refuses to Be Pinned Down
Read the 10 Feature Screenplays the WGA Thinks Are the Best of 2023
The 'Tension of Becoming' at the End of the World
Weekly Question: What's your favorite film of 2023?
Q&A: Screenwriter Melinda Hsu Knows How to Change Hollywood
To Be or Not to Be: 'Ophelia' and (More) Tension of Becoming
The 'Tension of Becoming' in Coming-of-Age Cinema
5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 11
Weekly Question: What novel have you re-read the most?
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Rewrite - Part 2
How John Denver Helped Me Find My Way Back Home
Bob Dylan Knows That Size Really Does Matter (When Telling Stories)
Weekly Question: What was the first film that made you want to know who made it?
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Rewrite - Part 1
'Ghost' Is a Great Example of How We Collectively Misremember Some Films
Mood Board for My Debut Novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Weekly Question: What did Nirvana mean to you?
A Tale of Two (Aging) Heroes: 'Logan' and 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'
Q&A: Writer Charles Soule on the Roads Taken and Not Taken
60 Screenplays About Love and Heartbreak to Download and Study for Free
Weekly Question: What's the most romantic scene in cinema history?
Q&A: Screenwriter Ryan J. Condal Is Playing with (Dragon) Fire
Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' and the Audacity of Hope
5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 10
Weekly Question: What is the purpose/goal of your art?
The Three Burials of Some Assh@le Named Cole Haddon
More Than 50 2023 Award Season Screenplays to Download and Study for Free
Cary Grant Wasn't 'Just a Movie Star'
Weekly Question: How has where you come from impacted how you pursue your art?
Q&A: Screenwriter Jed Mercurio on 30 Years of Thrilling Audiences
We're All Made of Horrible, Beautiful Scars
Weekly Question: What's the best character intro in film history?
How To Survive The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life Of An Artist
All Art Is Autobiography Made Flesh
Weekly Question: Why does David Bowie matter to you?
Q&A: TV Vets Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin on 30 Years As a Writing Team
What David Bowie Read (Or: 100 Ways to Make Yourself More Creative)
Luke Skywalker Isn't the Hero You Want Him to Be
5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 9
Weekly Question: What's your 2024 New Year's arts resolution?
Q&A: Screenwriter Eric Heisserer on the Burden of Knowing What You Want to Become