2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — Get Your Head On Straight A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Go Into The Story Interview: James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Update: 2020–2021 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 3 New Scripts, 43 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Page One: ‘ Captain Phillips’ (2013) Screenplay by Billy Ray, book by Richard Phillips and Richard Phillips
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — Genre Bend A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Part 6): James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Spec Script Deal: “Parallel” Netflix acquires science fiction spec script “Parallel” written by Ben Ripley. Via THR:
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — Gender Bend A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Part 5): James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — Script Diary A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Part 4): James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
The Business of Screenwriting: They will pigeonhole you (and why this can be a good thing) The co-star of K-9 was a dog named Jerry Lee.
Page One: ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ (1957) Screenplay by Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (originally uncredited), novel by Pierre Boulle
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — Index Cards! A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Part 3): James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Three Keys to Writing in a Distracting World I become fully engaged in my writing when I am fully engaged with my characters.
2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Story Prep — “What if…” A series to help prepare writers for next month’s Zero Draft Thirty writing challenge.
Interview (Part 2): James Acker My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Screenwriting 101: Nancy Meyers “I think it’s a mistake to write something you think people will like, or a combination idea, or this year’s version of last year’s movie…
