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…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 4 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Bros” — 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…
On Writing “The highest kind of writing — which must not be confused with the most ambitious kind…belongs to the realm of grace. Talent is part of it…
California Treasurer calls on studios to end writers’ and actors’ strikes About 20% of L.A.-area income comes from the entertainment or adjacent industries and more than 700,000 Californians are employed in…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 3 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Go Into The Story Interview: Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Writing Tip: Make Words Your Friend “Putting one right word after another” — that is so right. When you bust it all down, writing is about choosing words. A writer can choose…
Page One: “I Spit On Your Grave” (2010) Screenplay by Adam Rockoff (as Stuart Morse), based on the film by Meir Zarchi
Barry Diller: Studios Should Cut Their Own Deals With Guilds The mogul argues that the traditional studios should go to the guilds and make their own deals: “We are your natural allies, not your…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 2 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 6): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Script To Screen: “Pan’s Labyrinth” The scene in the 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth, written by Guillermo del Toro, wherein the Protagonist (Ofelia) moves out of the Ordinary…
Page One: “I Saw the Light” (2015) Screenplay by Marc Abraham, book by Colin Escott and George Merritt and William MacEwen
Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now it’s time to surrender “Don’t start a fight unless you are certain you can win it.”
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 1 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 5): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
