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.
Writing and the Creative Life: “Come to the edge” Going beyond the edge of the Old World into the New World can be a terrifying experience, but a necessary one for the transformation…
The Great Backfiring: Did This Move Just Add Weeks to the Strike? The studios released their proposals into the wild. The writers are crying foul.
Screenwriting Tip: How to Handle Blocks of Scene Description Think of each paragraph as a camera shot… with a catch.
Script Analysis: “Glass Onion” — Part 4: Themes A week-long analysis of the Oscar-nominated screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Writers on Character Quotes from professional writers about the importance of characters in the story-writing process.
Why Protecting the Writers Room Is Good for Studios’ Bottom Line “I’ve heard showrunners give me the same advice over and over: when you’re in this seat, you got to learn to delegate. But that only works…
Writing Tip: The Commuting Writer If your commute to work is a half-hour or longer, get in the habit of using that time on your writing projects.
Script Analysis: “Glass Onion” — Part 3: Characters A week-long analysis of the Oscar-nominated screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Why Creative People May Feel More Anxiety “Why won’t the words come? And what if they’re the wrong words? Know what? I hate words!”
Hollywood Therapists See Mental Health Effects of Dual Strikes Depression, anxiety and feelings of “powerlessness” and “loss of identity” are taking hold during the entertainment industry’s ongoing work…
Writing Tip: From Zero Draft… to Hero Draft “There are no mistakes. There are CHOICES. We have a scene. Or a character. Or a dialogue exchange. Whatever we’re writing, it represents…
Script Analysis: “Glass Onion” — Part 2: Plot A week-long analysis of the Oscar-nominated screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Screenwriting 101: John Michael Hayes “I like to write dialogue. It’s one of my skills, character and dialogue. Hitchcock, of course, grew up in silent films, and all those…
Page One: “House of Gucci” (2021) Screenplay by Becky Johnstonand Roberto Bentivegna, story by Becky Johnston, based on the book “The House of Gucci” by Sara Gay Forden
Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast Episode 16: Billy Ray in conversation with long-time producers Gale Anne Hurd and Glen Basner.
