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WHY EVERYONE NEEDS SCREENWRITING SKILLS
What do you think of when someone says “screenwriter”? Do you think of a crazy person in a dark room, the glare of the computer contouring dark eye-circles, nervous fingers typing away while a voice...
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A LOVE LETTER TO ARTISTS
To the #fadeinfamily of novelists, screenwriters, doodlers, all around creatives, artists, instructors and consultants… This is my love letter to you. You have the courage to journey on a creative path...
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PLAYING THE GENRE GAME
Writers, new and seasoned, always ask me for tools to help them finish their stories. The tools for starting a project open up a deluge of ideas that spark up something magical and when a writer is...
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7-UNDER-10-MINUTE WRITING EXERCISES
You need to make time for your creativity. I’ll say it again: you NEED to make time for your creativity. Expressing yourself, no matter how silly, will help you better understand yourself and the world...
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CREATIVE HABITS: Talk to Yourself
They say that people who talk to themselves are more intelligent than those who don’t. Let’s rephrase that a bit: people who talk to themselves are more emotionally intelligent and therefore more...
View ArticleBEIRUT MADINATI & CREATIVES
Beirut Madinati has been all over the streets and the social media news feeds. They are, “a volunteer-led campaign to elect a municipal council of qualified, politically unaffiliated individuals in the...
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DO YOU NEED TO FOLLOW RULES TO BE A GOOD WRITER?
When it comes to writing, you are often sold a hard-set of RULES that you cannot break or worse, a list of steps to follow. Don’t get me wrong, the rules are important to learn, to use and to abuse,...
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7 SURPRISING WAYS WRITING MAKES YOUR LIFE BETTER
Anyone can write. It takes practice, sure, but then again, so does playing a musical instrument or a sport. Just because you might not be selling out concert halls or joining an Olympic team, does that...
View ArticleYOU’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH
The biggest challenge of writing (or making art), is not the writing itself, it’s you. You are your own biggest challenge. The crippling fear that YOU’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH comes in many shapes and sizes....
View ArticleWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A WRITER?
The Producing team and I sit in a crowded café discussing the character arcs of an upcoming TV show that the FADE IN: writing team and I are working on. The conversation drifts between the plot of the...
View Article5 ESSENTIAL BOOKS ON WRITING
Books on writing are hugely helpful. Aside from reading all the time (novels, screenplays, memoirs, just read, people!), writers should be reading books about writing. But, these books can be...
View ArticleCAN WRITING BE TAUGHT?
Like so many things in art, you often hear, you either “have it” or “you don’t.” As in, you cannot teach or impart the knowledge of good writing to anyone, instead, they’re either born with it, or...
View Article“CAN WRITING BE TAUGHT?” A REBUTTAL
Youmna Bou Hadir, a youth-trainer and community liaison at FADE IN: had a few things to say about Nadia’s latest article Can Writing Be Taught. Her response is below: “To write competently is to do a...
View ArticleFILM AMERIKI TAWIL: ART THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
I walk into Cinemacity for the avant-premiere of Ziad Rahbani’s Film Ameriki Tawil and I’m actually nervous. I am invited by m.media, a brand new platform that aggregates films, series and docs in the...
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FICTION VS. REALITY a screenplay by Nadia Tabbara
I was recently invited to perform a story at the Cliffhanger’s Storytelling Nights. I spoke with the founder of this series, Dima Matta, and told her, I wanted to tell my story in screenplay format....
View ArticleTHE FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE
Today is Halloween, so of course, we decided we needed a spooky writing challenge at FADE IN: Beirut. In honor of our upcoming Flash Fiction workshop, we decided these should be super-short stories...
View ArticleHOW WRITING CHANGED MY LIFE
Written by Yasmine Mehio Just a bit over six years ago, my mentor in my “university acquired profession” told me I should be a screenwriter. I smiled politely and nodded and said, “yeah, maybe someday,...
View ArticleTHE LEBANESE NATIONAL LIBRARY: AN INSPIRATION
I have walked by the Sanayeh Gardens almost every day for the past 5 years, watching the old building across the street slowly modernize with glass facades and landscaping. I am told that it used to be...
View ArticleFADE IN: STUDENTS WRITE FLASH FICTION
FLASH FICTION is the art of the super-short story, and it helps writers in so many ways. It allows you to write faster and smarter; to experiment with different types of syntax or points of view; and,...
View ArticleTHE POWER OF STORYTELLING: A TALK AT AUB by Nadia Tabbara
A while back, I performed a personal story (in screenplay format) at Cliffhangers Storytelling Night. It just so happens that in the audience that night was Dina Salem, a member of the AUB Cine Club....
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