Scott McConnell Screenwriter & Traveller

Former Film/TV producer and story consultant. Now writes, travels, produces the Story Guy Newsletter. Lover of literature, the arts, and beauty.

[Scott McConnell Screenwriter & Traveller @ScriptEditing]

NEWSLETTER OF ACTIONABLE SCREENWRITING TIPS FROM FORMER SHOWRUNNER
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[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Ayn Rand on Reason as Man's Only Guide.

[Arch Vision @ArchVisionW]

Different countries, shared roots.

Which look is your favorite? 🇲🇽🇪🇸

#Spain #Mexico

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

81 years ago today, Lt. Audie Murphy wears his Medal of Honor at the Hohenwerfen Castle in Salzburg, Austria. 🪖

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

Tulip Garden, Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

A London classic

The Coach & Horses pub is such a cosy, historic gem.

Founded around 1744, it's the oldest surviving pub in Mayfair, serving Londoners for over 270 years.

[Scott McConnell Screenwriter & Traveller @ScriptEditing]

What Is Opportunity Editing?
But there is a type of editing that is too often missed by creatives and which most stories need. Opportunity Editing!

Opportunity Editing is when a consultant identifies vital character and story ideas the writer has not seen or developed.

[Alexandra Sorolla @AlexandraSoro]

With unmatched mastery, Gian Lorenzo Bernini immortalized the climax of a myth, sculpting with astonishing detail a moment suspended between desire and transformation. His Apollo and Daphne remains an eternal masterpiece, where passion takes shape in form.

By Dan Simmons. 🎥🌹
(davincisfumato)

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Ayn Rand on Conscription and the Volunteer Army.

[Westerns & the Old West @DavidLambertArt]

Happy Birthday to the great Jim Thorpe, born 139 years ago today

[Niven @classic575]

Samuel Shellabarger is one of my favorite historical fiction writers. Both Captain From Castile (1947) and Prince of Foxes (1949) were turned into exciting swashbuckling movies, both starring the great Tyrone Power.

Do you have some favorite historical fiction authors?

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

This is the Maison de Victor Hugo, the former home of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, now turned into a museum in Paris.

[Muse @xmuse_]

2022 ‼️

This was made in 2022!

Veiled Christ by Albino Sirsi, carved from a single block of Carrara marble, entirely by hand with hammer and chisel.

No machines. Six years of work.

📍 Church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage, Rome.

Art like this still exists 🔥

[Muse @xmuse_]

This is one of my favorite Caravaggio paintings, made in 1600 when he was rising to fame in Rome.

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

Standing 100 meters tall over Sendai, Japan, the Dai Kannon is one of Japan's most breathtaking and underrated landmarks.

It was built in 1990, and is a representation of the female bodhisattva Byakue Kannon.

[Francesca Mura @frances_mura]

La perfezione 🖤

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

A quiet path in the woods... a little koala... and a reunion with the woman who saved and healed him before releasing him back to wild.

[Alexandra Sorolla @AlexandraSoro]

"Le Baiser / The Kiss" (1882)
By Auguste Rodin. (1840-1917) 🏛️🌹
Musée Rodin, Paris.

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

Morning glow over Mont-Saint-Michel, France.
Photo by: Giles Laurent

[sophia @SophiaHarr54006]

Beautiful tribute’: Thousands of flags honor fallen Mass. service members on the Boston Common🌷🌹🌿🪷

[Robert Spencer @jihadwatchRS]

Hungarian Film Director Laszlo Nemes: ‘An Absolute Orgy of Antisemitism’ in the West
by Hugh Fitzgerald

Laszlo Nemes is right, of course. At Cannes, where his movie Moulin, about the French Resistance leader whom Klaus Barbie tortured to death, is being shown, the Hungarian director delivered himself of some words of warning and despair.

Nemes is a Hungarian film director, and a Jew, whose three movies have been about Jews, Nazis, and a heroic Résistant in Occupied Europe. He has felt the wind of antisemitism that, he says, is now at gale-force level, akin to what he says swept across Europe in the 1930s: “I think now [the idea of] the Jew as the internal enemy of the West has reached the dimensions of European antisemitism before the takeover by the National Socialist [Nazi] Party.”

This is a cry of despair that comes from a deep way down. Do not turn away. Pay attention.