A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 7 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
‘Air’ Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw ‘The Last Dance’ That guy? Screenwriter Alex Convery.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 6 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Story Type: Ticking Clock In Hollywood movie circles, there are genres like Horror or Science Fiction, cross genres like Action-Thriller or Drama-Comedy, and…
The Business of Screenwriting: When you don’t get the gig We are seated in the expansive office of a top Hollywood director and we are having a great time. I mean a really great time. We talk about…
Page One: “Boy Erased” (2018) Written for the screen by Joel Edgerton, based on the memoir by Garrard Conley
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 5 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
The Pomodoro Technique Break up writing tasks into half-hour segments with a reward at the end of each completed one.
Page One: “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) Screenplay by Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi, screen story byTony Gilroy, novel by Robert Ludlum
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 4 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Three-Act Structure as Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis How we can apply this theory of dialectics to the story-crafting process.
Screenwriting 101: Monica Beletsky “What is a pilot story? A pilot story is when a character’s normal life is changed forever by an outsider or outside force. The lead tries…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 3 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Theme = Meaning More than just the moral or premise of the story, theme can best be understood to be about what a story MEANS.
On Writing “Young writers often confuse dialogue with conversation, under the assumption that the closer you get to reality, the more convincing you…
