On Writing “I get up, take a shower, have breakfast. I read the paper, brush my teeth. If I have phone calls to make, I make them. I’ve got my coffee…
Page One: “Mrs. Winterbourne’” (1996) Screenplay by Phoef Sutton and Lisa-Maria Radano, novel by Cornell Woolrich
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 1 New Script It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Writing Tip: Don’t stand in water where you should be fishing I use fishing as a metaphor for one’s approach to screenwriting. Seriously.
Screenwriting 101: Michael Arndt On Tuesday, May 23, 2000, at 4:27 p.m., I sat down to write LMS [Little Miss Sunshine]. I wrote twelve pages the first day, thirty-seven…
Writing Tips: Make More Writing Time by Organizing Work Time Five tips to work smarter and create more time for your writing life.
On Writing “An idea you have might not be original — Aristotle will always have thought of it before you. But by creating a novel out of that idea…
Writing Tip: How to Handle Blocks of Scene Description Think of each paragraph as a camera shot… with a catch.
Writing Tip : “Earn this.” When it comes to a scene where a character makes a critical choice, it’s imperative that you — as the writer — have earned that moment.
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Page One: “The Monuments Men” (2014) Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov, book by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter
Writing Tip: How to Decide Which Story to Write Are you trying to figure out which of one or more stories to write next?
Screenwriting 101: Nancy Meyers “I follow the script very, very carefully. I rarely deviate from how I describe how the scene takes place. I don’t write it as a blueprint…
Page One: “Mommie Dearest” (1981) Screenplay by Frank Yablans & Frank Perry and Tracy Hotchner and Robert Getchell, book by Christina Crawford
“Fear”: A poem by Khalil Gibran It describes both the Protagonist’s journey … and the writer’s journey.
Script To Screen: “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” An action scene from early in the 2003 movie Kill Bill: Vol. 1, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Dialogue-Writing Workshop My one-week online workshop focusing on writing dialogue begins November 13.
On Writing “Before I write the lead of a piece, I think the hardest part is how to begin. Then, once I have that done, I think the hardest part is the…
