BSP 124: Screenwriting Rules You Need to Learn Then Break with Julian Hoxter

You should all know this by now. I love bringing on different
perspectives on the craft because you never know what might click
for someone. At the end of the day, we are all trying to tell a and
compelling story.

I invited to the show this week Julian Hoxter to talk about his
book, The Creative Screenwriter: 12 Rules to Follow and Break to
Unlock Your Screenwriting Potential.

Julian is a published writer, lecturer, and screenwriting story
consultant with extensive experience in scholarly writing.

After film school at UCLA, Hoxter returned to his homeland,
England, where he served as a senior lecturer at Solent University
for some years before starting up at San Francisco State
University, where he currently is an associate professor of
cinema.

Hoxter’s latest textbook, The Creative Screenwriter: 12 Rules to
Follow―and Break―to Unlock Your Screenwriting Potential, distills
the craft of screenwriting into 12 key elements, from developing
your story to revising and rewriting, plus plenty of inspiration to
create your screenplay with confidence. It encourages readers to
look behind the scenes at iconic films using a classic
screenwriting structure, along with experimental films from
innovative writers that have transcended the rules and paved their
way to the silver screen.

Apart from academia, Hoxter has been producing his independent
features, documentaries and doing rewrites collaborations with
other filmmakers. One of his most known productions is the
award-winning documentary feature, Imagine a School… Summerhill,
produced in 2009.

Other must-read textbooks or scholarly papers written by Hoxter
include, Off The Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media
Convergence, The Pleasures of Structure: Learning Screenwriting
Through Case Studies, and Theorizing Stupid Media: De-Naturalizing
Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Video
Games.

Keep an eye out for Hoxter’s sci-fi novels that will be out soon,
The Ballad of Coopy Meakes.

I collected a lot of knowledge bombs from chatting with Julian.
Enjoy this conversation with Julian Hoxter.

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