Daily Dialogue — September 28, 2019 Zeke: Listen, kid. Are you gonna try and let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo ya’? She ain’t nothing to be afraid of. Have a little…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 27 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Daily Dialogue — September 27, 2019 Terence Mann: Ray, there was a reason they chose me, just as there was a reason they chose you and this field. Ray Kinsella: Why? Terence…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 26 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
How to Do a Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Whether you are analyzing a movie or a screenplay, breaking it down to the granular level of its scenes can reveal much about its story…
The Business of Screenwriting: “Everyone is here because of us” It is late spring 1988. I am in San Diego where K-9 is being shot. It’s my first day on a movie set. Ever. The scene the crew is shooting…
Daily Dialogue — September 26, 2019 “Give me back my rabbit’s foot. I got too much to do around here to go around saving your life all the time.”
2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 25 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
The Nemesis as the Protagonist’s ‘Shadow’ “The Nemesis as a kind of mirror reflecting back the Protagonist’s shadow is a great way to think about their relationship.”
Movie Story Type: Assumed Identity “At the deepest level of meaning for assumed identity stories, there are two questions: Who am I? Do I really know what another person is…
Script To Screen: “You Can Count On Me” A key scene from the excellent 2000 drama You Can Count On Me, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.
Thanks for your comments, Prisca. Whether overtly religious or not, these themes speak to the universality of human experience and thus, as writers, we can mine them in our…
Good observation, Tom. In a way, it is crazy to think of how many movies, even TV series feature Protagonist figures whose journey is fundamentally about…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 24 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Reader Question: Should you plot out the Protagonist’s arc or just go with your gut? Some words of ‘wisdom’ from legendary Hollywood producer Max Millimeter.
Scene Description Spotlight: “Jerry Maguire” “A beat of silence, then noise returns to its normal commercial roar. A couple of fleas have been swatted off the carcass of an immense…
Screenwriting 101: Stephany Folsom “When I was starting out, I would go into a pitch and I would do everything that I do now, but I didn’t go with it with as much as ‘I’m…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 23 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Reader Question: How much dialogue versus description in a screenplay? Is there some sort of key to finding a balance in a script?
Great Scene: “Whale Rider” The 2003 movie Whale Rider is a wonderful story, aptly described in this IMDB plot summary:
On Writing “Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of…
