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Deadlines: Treat them with tender loving care

The treatment and why you need it

Attacking Sarah Winnemucca and her efforts for peace

Daniel Mainwaring: Remembering a genre-defining screenwriter

First script? Give yourself a chance

The tale of the 126-year old 'Cave Indian'

McKee's commandments and my principles

Suck it up and keep writing

The Mud Lake massacre

The Great Escape: Annotated script pages by Steve McQueen

Finished your first draft? 6 things to do next!

Chief Winnemucca's plea for peace

Your screenplay's perfect length

Deliverance: James Dickey's experience

Write your story, don't direct it

About the time when Samuel Langhorne Clemens became Mark Twain

Some of the many unknown faces and stories of notable screenwriters in Hollywood history

Learning the craft of screenwriting

The battles at Pyramid Lake

Robert McKee's final bow

Writing in someone else's world

The birth of the great Territorial Enterprise

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words

Tales of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pat Hobby in Hollywood

The perilous lives of frontier newspapermen (includes exclusive chapter)

Feedback - what a screenwriter does and does not need

What if they steal my story?

So you want to be a screenwriter - do you have what it takes?

Turning your spec script into a novel

The plight of American Indians after the California gold rush

Want to keep your sanity? Separate!

The glorious power of extended solitude

The path from screenplays to novels

The fires of San Francisco (includes exclusive chapter)

The Transcontinental Railroad (includes exclusive chapter)

If you want to be a working screenwriter, it really helps if ...

Thomas O. Larkin and the California Gold Rush

The Mountain Meadows massacre (includes exclusive chapter)

The life and death of William 'Lucky Bill' Thorington