Writing and the Creative Life: Is the key to creativity “unlearning”? What if everything we have learned in our lives has actually diminished our creativity?
Daily Dialogue — April 26, 2019 “Can’t you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can…
Script Analysis: “The Favourite” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and thematic…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 25 This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
How they write a script — Billy Wilder “In a serious pictures, you don’t hear them being bored, but in a comedy you can hear them not laughing. You tried so hard and the guy did…
Keys to the Craft: Write Pages The only path toward productivity as a writer is to stare down the blank page.
The Business of Screenwriting: Weather Vanes “With all these smart folks around, why are there so many weather vanes?”
Daily Dialogue — April 25, 2019 Arthur Kirkland: And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution is not gonna get that man today. No! Because I’m gonna get him! My…
Wow, Rose, that is some awesome analysis. Thanks for your in-depth analysis! Hope you learned something from the entire process.
Script Analysis: “Vice” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 24 This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Tweetstorm: Eric Heisserer on the Current Slate of Action Heroes “Perhaps this is the result of comic book heroes taking the throne at the box office, but I’ve been missing the vulnerable protagonist.”
Keys to the Craft: Read Scripts Essential to read screenplays to study style, tone, feel, structure, pace…
Script To Screen: “Saving Mr. Banks” A fun scene from the 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith.
Daily Dialogue — April 24, 2019 Michael: Really. You think your judgement is state-of-the-art right now? They’re putting everything on the table here. You need to stop and…
Allow me to echo your sentiments with regard to the job Rose did with this breakdown. Re boldface: When you’re Damien Chazelle, you don’t worry about any of that because you are an already established writer-director.
Who wants what? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now? That’s a helpful set of questions to bring to the scene-writing process. You could also do the inverse of the 2nd one: What happens if they…
Script Analysis: “Green Book” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this weekly series is a deep structural and…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 23 This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Spec Script Deal: “Rubble” Universal Pictures acquires science fiction spec script “Rubble” written by Patrick Pittis. From Deadline:
Keys to the Screenwriting Craft: Watch Movies Movies must be in your lifeblood. The best way to do that is to watch them.
Screenwriting 101: Aaron Tracy “My agent recently asked me to send him 10 ideas for screenplays in the span of a couple weeks. It seemed like a silly exercise because…
Daily Dialogue — April 23, 2019 Col. Jessup: Do you have any more questions for me, Counselor? Judge Randolph: Lt. Kaffee? [pause] Lieutenant, do you have anything further…
