2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 17 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 2): Aaron Chung My interview with the 2019 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Screenwriting 101: Ron Bass “I’ve always felt that writing was communication — not showing off how articulate you are, or showing off your vocabulary. It’s about…
Daily Dialogue — March 17, 2020 Trent: I’m gonna find me two waitresses here and I’m gonna pull me a Fredo. Mike: Yeah, well they’re all skanks. Trent: What are talking…
Create a Compelling Protagonist Go beyond writing a ‘sympathetic’ Protagonist. Dig deeper than giving your Protagonist a ‘flaw.’ That is surface level writing.
2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 16 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 1): Aaron Chung My interview with the 2019 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
On Writing “Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to…
Daily Dialogue — March 16, 2020 Bobby: I’d like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast. Waitress: [points at his menu] No…
The Theology of Cinema: Righteousness “If we take this concept and consider it in a secular manner, we see it is a common theme in movies: whenever one or more characters does…
2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 15 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” The entire 6 part series on the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.
Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2020 “You don’t remember me. We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.”
2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 14 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 6: Takeaways Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Diner Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 4,321 consecutive days and counting.
Interview: Jason Orley A conversation with the writer-director of the new indie comedy Big Time Adolescence.
Daily Dialogue — March 14, 2020 Viggo Tarasov: It’s not what you did, son, that angers me so. It’s who you did it to. Iosef Tarasov: Who? That fucking nobody? Viggo…
How do the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting readers judge a script? The criteria they use provides a good list of questions for screenwriters to assess their own writing.
Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 5: Dialogue Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.
2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 13 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Writing and the Creative Life: 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Are you creative? Chances are you do some things differently.
Daily Dialogue — March 13, 2020 “Enough is enough! I have had it with the motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”
10 Screenwriting Do’s and Don’ts It’s one thing to avoid screenwriting pitfalls, but what should we be doing right?
