Interview (Part 1): Byron Hamel My interview with the 2021 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Script Analysis: “The Invitation” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
On Writing “Who’s your ideal reader? Don’t imagine someone who loves your work and gets what you’re trying to do. Imagine the most impatient person…
Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing” A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed author’s memoir.
Script Analysis: “The Incredibles” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Writing and the Creative Life: What are you afraid of? The single greatest inhibitor to creativity is fear. Do you recognize any of these inner voices?
Interview (Video): Maggie Gyllenhaal A conversation with the writer-director of the movie The Lost Daughter.
Analysis: Annual Black Lists (2013–2021) A Go Into The Story deep dive into every annual Black List since 2013.
Script Analysis: “The Imitation Game”: Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Spec Script Deal: “No Flying in the House” Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires the family fantasy spec script “No Flying in the House” written by Frederick Seton, adapted from a…
Page One: “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997) Screenplay by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, novel by Andrew Neiderman
How to Write a Marketable Screenplay: Part 2 (Character) Tips from a presentation at the Pittsburgh Shorts Filmmaker Conference.
Update: 2021–2022 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 30 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Script Analysis: ‘I’m Your Woman’ — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 2) The intriguing thing here is that while we, as writers, are thinking about emotions and psychology, much of it apparently boils down to a…
Page One: “Despicable Me” (2010) Screenplay by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, based on a story by Sergio Pablos
Script Analysis: “I, Tonya” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Snacks It’s like maybe fifteen years ago and I’m reading an interview with noted playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon. And in this interview…
The Business of Screenwriting: The screenwriter as problem-solver Words of wisdom from legendary Hollywood producer Max Millimeter.
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Read your dialogue aloud This is truly one of the easiest things you can do to improve your dialogue writing: When you finish a draft of your script, read aloud…
