Interview (Part 6): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
Unpacking the Mysteries of Screenplay Time Flashback, Flashforward, Set-Up / Payoff, Callback, Montage, Series of Shots, Cross Cut, Visual-to-Visual Transition, Audio-to- Audio…
Interview: Kelly Fremon Craig Conversation with the writer-director of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 27 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
Interview (Part 5): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
The looming threat of AI to Hollywood, and why it should matter to you Artificial intelligence could be the most important part of a writers strike, for reasons bigger than show business.
Spec Script Deal: “Stakehorse” Amazon Studios acquires crime thriller spec script “Stakehorse” written by Justin Piasecki. Via Deadline:
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 27 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
Interview (Part 4): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
Go Into The Story: Paris 2023 Reflections on a recent three-day screenwriting class I taught in France.
2023 WGA Strike Rules In the event there is a work stoppage on May 1 or soon thereafter, the Writers Guild of America has sent strike rules to its membership.
Page One: “Cloak & Dagger” (1984) Screenplay and screen story by Tom Holland from a story by Cornell Woolrich
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 26 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
Interview (Part 3): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
Hollywood Tales “I’ve always written for my own edification and for fun but I have this fear of rejection so I spent my entire life being a writer who…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 25 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
Interview (Part 2): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
Script To Screen: “The Way Way Back” A scene from the 2013 movie The Way Way Back, written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Screenwriting 101: Sam Boyer “The thing that scared me and screwed me up the first couple of times I tried writing a feature was I would blind go into it, and not know…
Page One: “City Hall” (1996) Written by Ken Lipper and Paul Schrader & Nicholas Pileggi and Bo Goldman
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 24 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
