How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 2): Halliwell’s Film Guide What can a writer do with a resource containing 24,000 loglines?
Reader Question: What’s the best way to approach pitching? There’s not one way to pitch, but this way works.
Screenwriting 101: Neil Drumming “I have a tendency to write characters that are flawed in a way that I know or I feel familiar with. I like characters who have a journey…
Page One: “State of Play” (2009) Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Tony Gilroy and Billy Ray, based on a television series by Paul Abbott
What are you afraid of? The single greatest inhibitor to creativity is fear. Do you recognize any of these voices?
How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 1): What if… The two most important words for generating story ideas.
Video: 5 Screenwriting Questions with Adam McKay The writer-director of The Big Short, Vice, and Don’t Look Up talks about how he beats procrastination, balancing comedy and drama, and…
On Writing “Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and…
Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies” A series featuring reflections on filmmaking by one of the truly great movie directors.
Great Scene: “Halloween” This is one of the iconic scenes in the history of horror movies: Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) versus Michael Myers (Tony Moran) in the Final…
The Theology of Cinema: Grace “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.”
Reflections on Carl Jung and the Protagonist’s Journey A five-part series exploring Jung’s concept of individuation.
Page One: “Splash” (1983) Screenplay by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman, screen story by Bruce Jay Friedman, based on a story by Brian Grazer
Reflections on Carl Jung : Become Who You Are Carl Jung’s theory of individuation is directly applicable to the Protagonist’s journey in a screenplay.
Spec Script Deal: “Fight Fast” Legendary Pictures acquires drama action spec script “Fight Fast” written by Chris Sparling. Via Deadline:
Writing and the Creative Life: The Virtues of Spacing Out and Goofing Off Finally, science is good for something! Spacing out rules!
Tarantino, Sorkin, and Dialogue as Purpose Analysis of long dialogue-centric scenes in The Social Network and Pulp Fiction reveals that underneath the entertaining conversations lies…
