Daily Dialogue — February 2, 2019 Seth: You dropped your purse, ma’am. Would you like me to help you with your groceries? Old Lady: Well, that would be lovely young man…
Reader Question: What should I do if a project sells in Hollywood which is similar to a script I’m… Before you jump, step back from the ledge, and consider the following.
Writing Mantra: “Make words your friend” “In the beginning was the word.” So begins the Gospel of John. Setting aside theological implications, this is where writing begins as…
Daily Dialogue — February 1, 2019 “The parole board got me into this halfway house called The Brewer and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It’s hard work and I try to…
Go Into The Story at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival: January 30 Notes and reflections from Park City, Utah.
Reader Question: What are three good ‘how to’ scripts to read? Three scripts essential for learning the craft.
The Business of Screenwriting: The Travails of Pitching (Part 2) — The Surprise Visitor After the humbling experience of pitching the latest project to a distracted exec, we actually sell it to another studio. We head out to…
Daily Dialogue — January 31, 2019 Ronna: Dead celebrities. Loser goes up. Mannie: Omar Sharif. Ronna: Steve McQueen. Claire: Michael Landon. Mannie: Lee Marvin.
Go Into The Story at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival: January 29 Notes and reflections from Park City, Utah.
How To Read A Screenplay If you’re serious about learning the craft, here are 7 exercises you can use to make the most of your script-reading and analysis.
Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2019] Here are prompts for the 5th annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.
Great Scene: “On the Waterfront” “This is my church. And if you don’t think Christ is down here on the waterfront, you’ve got another thing coming.”
Daily Dialogue — January 30, 2019 “We have to go through with it, Walter. The tough part is all behind us. We just have to hold on and not go soft inside. Stick close…
Go Into The Story at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival: January 28 Notes and reflections from Park City, Utah.
Mickey Fisher on Writing, Selling, and Producing a TV Pilot Spec Script An excellent guide from TV writer-producer (Extant, The Strain, Reverie).
2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 20 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Screenwriting 101: Patty Jenkins “Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.”
Keys to Handling Exposition Take my 1-week online class to learn ways to make exposition entertaining.
Character Type: Clown “Clowns tend to be Trickster figures and often defy convention or authority. As such, they upset the normal state of affairs, creating…
Reader Question: Are there any script rules that really shouldn’t be broken? Or this: “How can you break screenwriting rules if there are none?”
On Writing “Spend some time living before you start writing. What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, “Write what you know.”…
Daily Dialogue — January 28, 2019 “There’s a box of Twinkies in that grocery store. Not just any box of Twinkies, the last box of Twinkies that anyone will enjoy in the…
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