Screenwriting 101: Whit Stillman “For me, there’s a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it’s awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to…
Judging from the script, I'd say David is the Protagonist as the story is told through his… As you say, it *does* feel like a "conventional narrative movie," and one thing it suggests at the script stage (I have yet to see the…
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 29 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Minari” — Part 1: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown A week-long analysis of this Oscar-nominated screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
On Writing “The act of writing, when it goes well, gives me a pleasure, a joy, unlike any other. It takes me to another place — irrespective of my…
Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing” A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed writer’s memoir.
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 28 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Great Scene: “The Conversation” The Protagonist’s paranoia turns out to be real when a woman is murdered.
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 27 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
How They Write A Script: Anna Hamilton Phelan “It’s the character that usually grabs me. My downfall always is the plot. That’s the hardest part for me, plot.”
Page One: “The Elephant Man” (1980) Screenplay by Christopher De Vore & Eric Bergren & David Lynch, book by Frederick Treves
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 26 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Happy Birthday, Joseph Campbell! Joseph Campbell’s birthday is today. If he were alive, he would 117 years old. His physical body died in 1987, but his ideas live on.
Writing and the Creative Life: Trust the Process “There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be…
How Being a New York Mets Fan Prepared Me to Be a Screenwriter Is it their two World Series championships? Their five pennants? Their star players like Tom Seaver and David Wright? Nah. It’s their…
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 25 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
“Movies don’t owe anybody a living” The original quote is about music, but it pertains to all entertainment.
Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing” A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed writer’s memoir.
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 24 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
