Ray Morton

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How to Sell a Script and Build a Screenwriting Career

MEET THE READER: Should I Write for Art? Or Commerce?

Out of either lack of knowledge, lack of experience, lack of confidence, or (sometimes) laziness, they will take a shortcut to create an effect rather than do the work to create the real thing. Ray Morton highlights some of those screenwriting gimmicks you should avoid.
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MEET THE READER: Into the Sunset - Screenwriting Gimmicks

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MEET THE READER: Generic Thinking - Why Story Genre Matters

Script reader, Ray Morton, explains why there are only four elements to screenwriting that make your story a true cinematic experience.
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MEET THE READER: The (Only) Four Elements of Screenwriting

As a professional script reader with years of experience, Ray Morton gives advice on five types of movie ideas a screenwriter should avoid.
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MEET THE READER: 5 Types of Movie Ideas You Shouldn't Bother to Write

Ray Morton examines the heart of a dramatic story. A story that does not have this form and structure and that does not contain these elements may be a narrative, but it will not be drama.
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MEET THE READER: Drama, Not Twinkies

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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MEET THE READER: Close Encounters of the Writing Kind

MEET THE READER: This and That - Observations on Spec Scripts
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MEET THE READER: This and That - Observations on Spec Scripts

Nicole Kidman stars as Becca Corbett in Rabbit Hole PHOTO: JOJO WHILDEN COURTESY : LIONSGATE
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INTERVIEW : Adapting a Play - Down the 'Rabbit Hole'

MEET THE READER: Why Can't You Be Nice? by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Why Can't You Be Nice?

MEET THE READER: What’s the (Back)Story? by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: What’s the (Back)Story?

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MEET THE READER: It’s Got to Be a Movie

MEET THE READER: Film Franchises - Go Ape! by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Film Franchises - Go Ape!

MEET THE READER: 11 Reasons Why I Pass on a Screenplay by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenplay
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MEET THE READER: 11 Reasons Why I Pass on a Screenplay

MEET THE READER: Darkness Falls (Soon, I Hope) by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Darkness Falls (Soon, I Hope)

THE CRAFT: Lessons from The Best and Worst Super Hero Films by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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THE CRAFT: Lessons from The Best and Worst Super Hero Films

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MEET THE READER: Screenplays. Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me! (No, Really - Don’t Tell Me)

MEET THE READER: Sir Peter Shaffer - Everything You've Heard is True by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Sir Peter Shaffer - Everything You've Heard is True

MEET THE READER: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films - Writing the Script Fantastic by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films - Writing the Script Fantastic

MEET THE READER: Positively Super - What Makes Great Movies? by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Positively Super - Where 'Batman v Superman' Went Wrong

MEET THE READER: Is Your Script Done? by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #amwriting #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: Are You Done?

THE CRAFT: The Challenge of Attaching Actors to Scripts by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #screenwriting
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THE CRAFT: The Challenge of Attaching Actors to Scripts

MEET THE READER: What I Will Do For You (and What I Will Not Do for You) by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
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MEET THE READER: What I Will Do For You (and What I Will Not Do for You)

MEET THE READER: Some New Year Resolutions for Screenwriters by Ray Morton | Script Magazine #scriptchat
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MEET THE READER: Some New Year Resolutions for Screenwriters