Writing and the Creative Life: A Playlist to Calm the Mind A therapist suggests some music to reduce anxiety… and spur creativity.
Screenwriting 101: Alvin Sargent “My confidence grows or dissolves with each day’s work. As I work and start to see ‘it’ happening and realize that I’m moving somewhere…
Writing Tip: Hero’s Journey as Psychological Journey When we think of the Hero’s Journey, what comes to mind is a geographical adventure. The Heroine starts out in their Ordinary World…
Writing Tip: Routine or Ritual? I am fascinated by creativity, in particular how creativity manifests itself in the wide variety of people I meet or learn about. That has…
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
