Reader Question: What is life really like for a beginning screenwriter? Some things to expect when you break into the business.
On Writing “We often forget that novels have deep roots in storytelling, because books are objects, things you hold and read alone in your underwear…
Daily Dialogue — December 30, 2019 Sam: It’s you. Annie: It’s me. Sam: I saw you on the street. Jonah: Are you Annie? Annie: Yes. Sam: You’re Annie? Annie: [holding teddy…
The Theology of Cinema: Forgiveness “When someone does something wrong to us, it hurts, but the longer we live in that space, it becomes more like a prison, chained to the…
Update: 2019 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 1 New Script, 38 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Interview (Written): Chinonye Chukwu A conversation with the writer-director of the movie Clemency starring Alfre Woodard.
Daily Dialogue — December 29, 2019 “I hate this place… I hate myself… and before I arrived, I didn’t even know what that feeling was.”
2019 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge: Winners! Some inventive loglines based on key words from 2019 Black List scripts.
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Interview (Written): Destin Daniel Cretton A conversation with the co-writer and director of the movie Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson.
Dan Harmon, The Hero’s Journey, and the Circle Theory of Story “To this day, Harmon still studies each film and TV show he watches, searching for his algorithm underneath, checking to see if the theory…
Writing and the Creative Life: Creativity-In-Action “Creativity requires more than a dream. In many cases, people struggle to turn their dreams into a reality not because they lack ambition…
Daily Dialogue — December 27, 2019 “You’re looking at eons of repression getting purged. If only they’d let us jerk off.”
Reader Question: How do I make supporting characters and interesting? One sign of a well-written script: Strongly detailed secondary characters.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs [Part 13] “Targeting people specifically means the material can evolve or shuffle between different parties in a gradual way. You can afford a few…
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