2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep — Script Diary A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
What is the difference between Act One midpoint and Act One end? “Something happens. An event that precipitates a change in the Protagonist’s life circumstances.”
On Writing “When people talk, listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should…
2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Story Prep — “What if…” A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Video): Bong Joon-Ho An in-depth conversation with the writer-director of Mother, Okja, Snowpiercer, and Parasite.
Three Things About Screenplay Structure Do not let page count concerns stifle your creativity… or your story.
There is no short cut There is no golden method. There is no guaranteed approach to writing a million dollar spec script. All of that hype is bull shit.
Movie Analysis: “Gravity” When we think of the movie Gravity, we most likely think BIG. Yet in interview after interview, co-writer and director Alfonso Cuarón has…
Video: “10 Ways to Invest Your Audience in Your Hero” Another in the excellent screenwriting series Raising the Stakes.
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 5: Reader Identification Tap into the Protagonist’s qualities which a reader can connect with.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and story as psychological journey.
Reader Question: When is the best time to reveal a character’s backstory? Key character revelations from their past. When? Where? How?
Writing and the Creative Life: Wherein I embrace my messy desk! For decades, I have waged a relentless war. The battlefield? My desk. Raised a military brat and a Southern Baptist to boot, the message I…
Page One: “Ratatouille” (2007) Screenplay by Brad Bird, original story by Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco & Brad Bird, additional story material by Emily Cook & Kathy…
Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 4: Character = Function Every character in a screenplay has to be there for a reason. That is their narrative function, who they are and what they do tied to the…
140 Scene-Writing Prompts At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Use these prompts to improve your scene-writing chops.
Breaking the 4th Wall in Scene Description To everyone who claims there’s a screenwriting rule asserting we can’t include so-called ‘unfilmables’ in scene description, read this!
The Business of Screenwriting: Hurry up and wait The bane of a screenwriter’s existence: They want the script NOW… then they make you WAIT… and wait… and wait…
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