Writing Goals: 2023 [Part 2] — Assessing Where You Are Over the next two weeks, a 10-part series for writers to consider what we did in 2022 and will do in 2023.
Story Type: Revenge “Revenge movies cut through moral ambiguity and traffic in pure violent intentions, tapping into some of our most base human instincts.”
Writing Goals: 2023 [Part 1] — Looking Back Over the next two weeks, a 10-part series for writers to consider what we did in 2022 and will do in 2023.
Story Type: Post-Apocalypse In Hollywood movie circles, there are genres like Horror or Science Fiction, cross genres like Action-Thriller or Drama-Comedy, and…
On Writing “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead. I say ‘one…
Page One: “Unfaithful” (2002) Screenplay by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr., film “La Femme infidèle” by Claude Chabrol
WM, a bunch of my friends are PKs (Preacher Kids) and one of my best friends went to Princeton… Having grown up in a conservative Christian context and explored religion from a bunch of different perspectives, my bottom line is this…
WM, honestly, I don't know. I just put stuff out there and hope people connect with it. And apparently, due to site traffic, it's still doing that.
Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies” A series featuring reflections on filmmaking by one of the truly great movie directors.
The Theology of Cinema: Chosen The archetype of the Chosen One is common to movies, echoing the Messiah figure in ancient religions.
Interview (Written): Rian Johnson A conversation with the writer-director of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Page One: “Up” (2009) Screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, story by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy
Don’t stand in water where you should be fishing I use fishing as a metaphor for one’s approach to screenwriting. Seriously.
Great Scene: “No Country For Old Men” “You need to call it. I can’t call it for you. It wouldn’t be fair. It wouldn’t even be right.”
Writing and the Creative Life: Nothing succeeds like failure Re-thinking the role of failure in the creative life.
Update: 2022–2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 12 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Story Type: Mockumentary In Hollywood movie circles, there are genres like Horror or Science Fiction, cross genres like Action-Thriller or Drama-Comedy, and…
Page One: “Gladiator” (2000) Screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson, story by David Franzoni
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