Reader Question: Are there differences between seeking representation with a manager versus and… The answer is yes. As one manager put it to me: “Agents wear suits, managers wear blue jeans.” Why that makes a big difference to you.
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 4): Subplots, Relationships and Character Functions There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
The Business of Screenwriting: “Qualify the customer” Okay, this week’s post is a blast from the past and only comes about due to a recent revelation from a TV producer I know that she has…
Daily Dialogue — October 18, 2018 “My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be…
Reader Question: What to do with a 70 page screenplay? Is the story ‘done’ or can it be mined for additional content?
Two Writing Functions: Receptive and Executive One that allows your characters to come alive. One to craft sentences which draw the reader into the scene.
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 3): Plotline Points and Sequences There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
Script To Screen: “Jaws” It’s the movie that forever changed the business, the first true blockbuster of the modern era: Jaws (1975), screenplay by Peter Benchley…
Daily Dialogue — October 17, 2018 “Greetings, my friend! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And…
Reader Question: Is it okay to include an image in a spec script? Revisiting this subject based on the spec script for the movie A Quiet Place.
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 2): The Scene-By-Scene Breakdown There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
Screenwriting 101: Robin Swicord “I think that all of this dialogue comes out of the characters themselves. What happens… there’s a kind of mystical transference that…
Daily Dialogue — October 16, 2018 “The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is now lost for none now…
Writing Dialogue There are many intangibles about the craft of screenwriting. Much of that derives from the fact that story itself is organic. Stories —…
Updated: 2018 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference Schedule The annual event in Austin, Texas runs from October 25 through November 1 and I’ll be there for my 5th appearance.
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 1): The First Pass There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
On Writing “You must read everything, and you must let it all the way into your life, all the way into the part of you that makes writing, and you…
Daily Dialogue — October 15, 2018 “Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya’ about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski.”
Q&A: Sean Hartofilis The writer-director of the indie feature Covadonga shares his thoughts on the challenges and benefits of micro-budget filmmaking.
So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’ A comprehensive 15-part series on supposed screenwriting ‘rules,’ hopefully to put things into proper perspective: Tools, not rules.
Interview (Written): Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna A conversation with the star and showrunner of the CW TV series ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.’
Daily Dialogue — October 14, 2018 Kyle-Lee: Why are you doin this man? It’s just a game. Shep: Not to me.
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