BPS 096: Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles with Scott W. Smith

Today on the show we have screenwriter and Emmy-winner Scott W.
Smith. Scott is an OG in the screenwriting blogging space. His blog
Screenwriting from Iowa has been around since 2008 and has been
nationally recognized. His new book Screenwriting with Brass
Knuckles is a bare-knuckle approach to the screenwriting
process. Here's some info on his book.

Every screenwriter faces fear and failure. The legendary
screenwriter William Goldman once said he was “programmed to fail.”
Yet he went on to have a long career that included winning two
Oscar Awards. Susannah Grant put a positive spin on constant
failure saying “that free-falling feeling you get right on the
knife-edge of total disaster may, in fact, be an essential
ingredient to doing anything worthwhile.” Arguably the worst
failure for the new screenwriting is either not finishing a script
—or not even starting the writing process.

You’ll find throughout this book that talent and hard work are
essential to succeed at any level. You can’t teach that. But
distilled from over 3,000 posts from Emmy-winner Scott W. Smith’s
nationally recognized blog Screenwriting from Iowa . . .. and Other
Unlikely Places, these 10 chapters will hopefully guide and inspire
you to improve your writing and output. Sprinkled throughout these
pages are quotes curated from an eclectic and diverse mix of many
top screenwriters and filmmakers throughout the history of film and
television.

Enjoy my conversation with Scott W. Smith.

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