Update: 2022–2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 31 Total, 4 New Scripts It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Great Scene: “(500) Days of Summer” Tom’s best day ever plays out as a music video accompanied by Hall & Oates.
On Writing “For me, writing a book is not about knowing something and then conveying it. It’s certainly not about getting away with something. It’s a…
How to Use Go Into The Story (Part 5): Learn the Business Some end of the year advice for blog readers.
Writers on Characters Quotes from professional writers about the importance of characters in the story-writing process.
Sundays with Ray Bradbury The entire series of articles featuring the writing wisdom of one of the truly great authors of our time.
Video: 10 Screenwriting Tips from Christopher Nolan The writer-director of Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, and Tenet shares 10 screenwriting tips.
Page One: “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Screenplay by Noel Langley & Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley, from the book by L. Frank Baum
More Movies Like This, Please: 2022 List I started something in 2012. Whenever I saw a new movie I liked, I would jump onto Twitter, identify the movie, then simply tweet: “More…
Writing Mantra: On the other hand… One of the best ways for writers to combat the dreaded Voices Of Negativity.
Interview (Written): Rian Johnson A spoiler-filled Q&A with the writer-director of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Okwywrites, the focus shouldn’t be on rules or conventional wisdom — which is so often more about… I believe, right or wrong, that a screenwriter can approach style and format any way they feel they need to tell their story the best way…
2022 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge: Winners! The challenge started with a word cloud based on the loglines for the 2022 Black List scripts, all 74 of them!
Scene Description Spotlight: “Basic Instinct” Let’s say you’re writing a sexy thriller. Per the concept of narrative voice, you should write scene description that is… well… sexy and…
Gary, the OP focuses more on substantive screenwriting concerns such as style and structure. As I say, the OP is more about style and structure. I did a 15-part series on so-called screenwriting rules. You can check it out here:
“There are no screenwriting rules” No matter what you have read or may have heard. Perhaps the source is a so-called screenwriting “guru.” Maybe it’s a friend. A member of…
