2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 9 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script To Screen: “Out Of Sight” A memorable scene from the 1998 Out Of Sight, screenplay by Scott Frank, novel by Elmore Leonard.
Writing Tip: Writing Weekend For 48 hours, nothing but writing. No Internet. No phone calls. No TV. Just you. And your story.
Page One: “Ides of March” (2011) Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, based on a play by Beau Willimon
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 8 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Writing Tip: One Page Per Day You can write two entire spec scripts in one year if you only write one page per day. Two. Complete. Feature. Spec. Scripts.
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 7 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity
Writing Tip: Pomodoro Technique Break up writing tasks into 25–50 minute segments with a reward at the end of each completed one.
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 6 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Character Development Keys Starting September 18, my 1-week online class not only immerses you in five key archetypes, you also use them to workshop one of your…
How Judd Apatow used email to write “Knocked Up” “As I waited around for sets to be lit or actors to arrive, I would send long emails to myself with fragments of outlines, and sometimes…
“This Labor Day, We Are All In This Together” A message from WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser.
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 5 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “The Woman King” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic…
Screenwriting 101: Horton Foote “It’s a very mysterious thing — writing. It’s like acting: You can study techniques until you drop over on your face. Then there’s the x…
