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	<title>Foot in the Door Entertainment</title>
	<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com</link>
	<description>A film production company dedicated to turning good ideas into studio feature films and network television series</description>
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		<title>Easy on the Eyes, Heavy on the Exposition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book SAVE THE CAT, Blake Snyder recommended taking the &#8220;Pope in the Pool&#8221; approach to exposition scenes, meaning, if you have to have heavy exposition, make it interesting to watch, so the audience doesn&#8217;t know they&#8217;re getting bombarded with expo. In the episode &#8220;You Win or You Die&#8221; of GAME OF THRONES, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If A Gun Goes Off In Act I, It Had Better Not Be On The Mantle In Act III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like a lot of people, saw THE KING&#8217;S SPEECH.  And while many will say they liked it, I have to hold myself back.  Because while I thought it was a well-made movie, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a well-told story.  And here&#8217;s why (spoilers, naturally): Geoffrey Rush&#8217;s character, Lionel Logue, convinces soon-to-be-King George (played by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2011/03/if-a-gun-goes-off-in-act-i/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Draft Dates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m instituting a new policy for the new year, and I wanted to share in case it&#8217;ll be helpful for anyone else: As is my usual procedure, each day I work on a writing project, I save a different draft.  This includes changing the file name to include the date, so I know what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2011/01/quick-tip-draft-dates/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Following Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a writer, and a producer or exec has an interest in your project, it&#8217;s up to you to follow up with them.  They&#8217;ve got a million things going on, and projects that they have an interest in DO fall through the cracks or slip their mind sometimes. However, it&#8217;s important not to bug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/11/quick-tip-following-up/</link>
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		<title>Writing Visually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems newbie writers have is &#8220;writing visually.&#8221;  It can be a hard concept to grasp; the words are on the page, what&#8217;s not &#8220;visual&#8221; about it? One rule of thumb is that if you can&#8217;t see or hear it on the screen, don&#8217;t write it down.  This is a great place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/08/writing-visually/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: It Could Happen to You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One approach to story that manages to consistently get (and keep) an audience engaged, no matter how preposterous, is the &#8220;It Could Happen to You&#8221; technique. Using this approach, a seemingly normal person, going about their normal routine, becomes the focus of everything.  In NORTH BY NORTHWEST, for example, Roger Thornhill accidentally gets drawn into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/07/quick-tip-it-could-happen-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip: Son of a Pitch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We met with a studio exec recently who vented about recent college grads showing up to a meeting and expecting to sell a pitch. Nowadays, unless you&#8217;re an established writer, you&#8217;re not going to sell a movie off of a pitch alone.  Even if you have a great sample, even if they love your pitch, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/07/quick-tip-son-of-a-pitch/</link>
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		<title>Blue Skies Smiling At Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a television term that&#8217;s been going around town a lot lately (I even saw it in Variety recently), and a surprising number of writers are not aware of it.  Since many people in town are looking for this type of show, I thought I&#8217;d post about it.  Here&#8217;s the term: Blue sky. In this case, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/07/blue-skies-smiling-at-me/</link>
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		<title>Be Prepared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse episode of the Creative Screenwriting Magazine Podcast the other day, and there&#8217;s a section where Damon Lindelof was talking about his time as a development exec.  He discussed meeting with writers who weren&#8217;t prepared, which is a strange phenomenon we&#8217;ve experienced ourselves. If you&#8217;re a writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitdentertainment.com/2010/05/be-prepared/</link>
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		<title>Poker Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One important asset to have in Hollywood is a good poker face. Cultivating a strong poker face comes in handy more often than you might think. &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re &#8216;going another way&#8217; and hiring a writer half as talented as me for the script that I&#8217;ve already given you two rounds of free outlining on. No [...]]]></description>
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