Scott Myers

Script Analysis: “Enough Said” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 17: Plot and Episode

As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…

Writing and the Creative Life: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”

Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and story as psychological journey.

Page One: “Double Indemnity” (1944)

Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, novel by James M. Cain

Writing Goals: 2022 [Part 9] — The Only Way Out Is Through

10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2021 and will do in 2022.

Script Analysis: “The End of the Tour” Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 16: Recognition

As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…

Update: 2021–2022 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 4 New Scripts, 21 Total

It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.

Page One: “Destroyer” (2018)

Written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi

Writing Goals: 2022 [Part 8] — First Draft

10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2021 and will do in 2022.

Script Analysis: “Eighth Grade” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 15(C): The Example of Good Portrait Painters

As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…

Screenwriting 101: Michael Arndt

“When I was working as a script reader, I read a gazillion scripts that had rote, uninspired endings. It started to really bother me. And…

Page One: “Da 5 Bloods” (2020)

Written by Danny Bilson & Paul De Meo and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee

And that's it!

I'm curious. In year's past, we've actually had writers who came away from the challenge with a story they ended up writing. Did anyone…

Writing Goals: 2022 [Part 7] — Time Management

10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2021 and will do in 2022.

Script Analysis: “Destroyer” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 15(B): The Unraveling of the Plot

As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…

Page One: “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” (2011)

Written by Dan Fogelman

Page One: “Raising Arizona” (1987)

Written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Good questions, Viridiana.

Indeed, you could write stories which play against expectations. "Oh, *that's* surprising! I didn't expect that! The story did *not• give…

Writing Goals: 2022 [Part 6] — Schedule

10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2021 and will do in 2022.

Script Analysis: “Dallas Buyers Club” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 15(A): Four Qualities of a Tragic Hero

As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…

On Writing

“Slow writing — like long exposure photography — can bring about a sense of saturation in the material, where the time taken in the making…