14 Days of Black Love 2025
14 Days of Black Love 2025

Following a prolonged hiatus, the 14 Days of Black Love Screening List is back for 2025. Read the review series written by WODC Co-Founder, Mercedes Khali, to inspire your next watch!

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Let's Talk About...Mercedes KhaliClaudine, Mahogany, Purple Rain, The Inkwell, The Watermelon Woman, Deliver Us from Eva, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Beyond the Lights, Waves, Time, Moonlight, The Weekend, The Lovebirds, Someone Great, 14Days, 14 Days, 14 Days of Black Love, black film, black cinema, black art, black artists, blackness, black film school, Black love, Black Romance, Lbgtqia film, Queer filmComment
Romancing the Stone (1984) - Written by Diane Thomas (Script Breakdown)
Romancing the Stone (1984) - Written by Diane Thomas (Script Breakdown)

This is the first in an ongoing series of script breakdowns from Mercedes K. Milner, host of the WODC’s Script to Screen Podcast. These are companion pieces to the podcast for visual learners interested in digesting the information in article format.

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Screenwriter SchoolMercedes KhaliRomancing the Stone, Diane Thomas, Script to Screen Podcast, Mercedes K. Milner, screenwriting, Scripts, Script Breakdown, Page One Breakdown Comment
Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet (Review)
Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet (Review)

In Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, David Mamet breaks down the three act structure and parallels it with life and human connection to drama.

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Reading on WritingMercedes KhaliThree Uses of the Knife, David Mamet, Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, About Last Night..., American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Review, readingonwritingcolumn, readingonwritingbookclub, The WODC, The Write or Die ChicksComment
The WODC’s Favorite Action Femmes (Global Edition)
The WODC’s Favorite Action Femmes (Global Edition)

When you love women in action as much as we do, it’s hard to narrow down the list to a few faves, but we tried and did. Check out our shortlist of action femmes that captured our Write or Die hearts.

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Let's Talk About..., Lost in TranslationThe Write or Die Chicksaction, Female Led, female led narratives, feminism, female characters, female protagonists, women in action, Queen Sono, Mulan, Hua Mulan, Nikita, La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson, Underworld, Resident Evil, action movies, movies, films, femmeComment