60 Second Screenwriter: What is ‘high concept?’ A video series addressing key screenwriting concerns in sixty seconds.
Writing and the Creative Life: “Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Morning” “Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Highlight Your Verbs I featured this bit of wisdom from screenwriter Larry Ferguson before here, the key quote being:
Page One: ‘ Reservoir Dogs’ (1992) Written by Quentin Tarantino, background radio dialogue written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Update: Online Song Lyric Generators This post may be of interest to a small niche among writers, but if you are writing a script that involves someone who is a songwriter. Or…
The Business of Screenwriting: Cynicism “In a town built on dreams, all too often they turn into nightmares. Somebody gets screwed. Just the way it is. And that’s why cynicism is…
Page One: ‘Rear Window’ (1954) Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich
Go Into The Story interview: David Boxerbaum An extended conversation with one of Hollywood’s top agents
Two Writing Functions: Receptive and Executive One that allows your characters to come alive. One to craft sentences which draw the reader into the scene.
Page One: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981) Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman
Ha! Yes, maybe making oneself uncomfortable can not only shake up one's creativity, it could also… Good luck with that, Lawson!
Ana, you raise a good point. The content is the important thing. From a pragmatic perspective — dealing with script readers, managers, agents, development execs — we do…
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Get Un-Comfortable If your writing is feeling stale, here’s an idea: Rattle your own cage!
Screenwriting 101: Julia Hart “My students would always get frustrated when we would talk about the themes that the author was using. They would always ask, ‘Did they…
Page One: ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) Written by Quentin Tarantino, stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
What do we mean when we talk about a story’s ‘theme’? And why is understanding theme so important when writing a story?
On Writing “The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an ‘objective correlative’; in other words, a set of objects, a…
Sundays with Ray Bradbury “I can imagine all kinds of worlds and places, but I cannot imagine a world without Bradbury.” — Neil Gaiman
60 Second Screenwriter: What is a ‘character arc?’ A video series addressing key screenwriting concerns in one minute.
Update: 2020 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 5 New Scripts It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
