Great news about “The Protagonist’s Journey” I received an email from Palgrave Macmillan, the London-based publisher of “The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character-Driven…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Get Your Head On Straight Prepare for next month’s writing challenge which starts tomorrow!
Interview (Part 4): Tim Ware-Hill My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
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.
