Saturday Hot Links Time for the 364th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 6): Themes There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Kitchen Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,810 consecutive days and counting.
Interview (Video): Bo Burnham A 50-minute conversation with the writer-director of the movie Eighth Grade.
Daily Dialogue — October 20, 2018 “After I killed them, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off me hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and walked home to…
Reader Question: Do you have any time management tips on how to write while holding down a… Some practical advice to engender productivity even while working full-time.
Scene Description Spotlight: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” The ending sequence includes a most interesting sentence…
How To Read A Screenplay (Part 5): Metamorphosis There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
Daily Dialogue — October 19, 2018 “Huh? I am not a bum. I’m a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends, and……
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…
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