Fallout from Hollywood labor unrest deepens as strikes drag on “The diverging priorities and strategies of the studio chiefs have made themselves apparent.”
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 5: Reader Identification Tap into the Protagonist’s qualities which a reader can connect with.
Interview (Part 3): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
What if you fall out of love with a script? “What about a script you fall out of love with after 2–3 drafts, and just can’t finish? Put it aside for now or just push through?”
Page One: “The Hunger Games” (2012) Screenplay by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins
Netflix Agrees to Pay Royalties to Creators of German Series Also Netflix made a recent agreement with Sweden. Yet they won’t make a similar deal with U.S. TV series and writers?
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 4: Character = Function Every character in a screenplay has to be there for a reason. That is their narrative function, who they are and what they do tied to the…
Interview (Part 2): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Scene Description Spotlight: Express Your Voice On September 4th, I’ll be offering a terrific one-week online class. It’s called Scene Description Spotlight which sounds super practical…
Page One: “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) Screen play by Philip Dunne, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 3: Plot Emerges From Character No matter what paradigm or theory you use to craft your screenplay’s plot, the single most important thing you can do is this: Start with…
Interview (Part 1): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
On Writing “Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every…
Page One: “How to Train Your Dragon 2” (2014) Written by Dean DeBlois, based upon the “How to Train Your Dragon” book series by Cressida Cowell
Another AMPTP PR Debacle A NYT puff piece on the outfit’s President Carol Lombardini immediately lambasted by supporters of the writers and actors strike.
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 2: The Protagonist’s Arc Transformation lies at the heart of the character’s arc.
Page One: “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010) Screenplay by William Davies and Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, based on the book by Cressida Cowell
AMPTP Hires New Crisis PR Firm as Strikes Go On CEOs: “The issue isn’t financial differences with the Guild. The real problem is how people perceive us.”
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 1: Writing Scenes With every scene, you should ask yourself this question: What is the scene’s Beginning, Middle, and End?
Page One: “The Horse Whisperer” (1998) Screenplay by Eric Roth and Richard LaGravenese, novel by Nicholas Evans
The Hollywood Strike Forces A Reckoning For The Trades “What purpose do the trades serve if, at the end of all of this, actors and writers don’t trust them? And if they aren’t useful propaganda…
Writing Tip: Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Morning “Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”
Script Analysis: “Glass Onion” — Part 5: Dialogue A week-long analysis of the Oscar-nominated screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
