Script To Screen: “Psycho” The famous “truth about mother” scenes from the classic 1960 movie Psycho, screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on a novel by Robert Bloch.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “First Reformed” The entire 6 part series delving into the Oscar-nominated screenplay.
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 23 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. I came up with this screenwriting mantra nine years ago. Still works.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Police Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,964 consecutive days and counting.
Script Analysis: “First Reformed” — Part 6: Takeaways Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.
Daily Dialogue — March 23, 2019 “Bombed last night and bombed the night before, Going to get bombed tonight if we never get bombed any more. When we’re bombed we’re…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 22 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “First Reformed” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.
Writing and the Creative Life: The Curse of Shiny Object Syndrome “It’s not quite ADD/ADHD. It’s more that a new idea captures your imagination and attention in such a way that you get distracted from the…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 21 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
“Screenplays are stories, not formulas” William Goldman has famously written, “Screenplays are structure.” That is true in a tangible sense because at some point, a script…
Script Analysis: “First Reformed” — Part 4: Themes Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.
The Business of Screenwriting: The Value of Three Scripts You write, you learn. And three scripts is a minimum for knowing the craft.
Daily Dialogue — March 21, 2019 Steve Trevor: This is no man’s land, Diana! It means no man can cross it, alright? This battalion has been here for nearly a year and…
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 20 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
There is no right way to write Learn all you can, but ultimately it’s about your Stories and your Creative Self.
Script Analysis: “First Reformed” — Part 3: Characters Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 20 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
2019 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 19 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
