Ways To Write (Part 2): The Pomodoro Technique Break up writing tasks into half-hour segments with a reward at the end of each completed one.
30 Days of Screenplays, Day 30: “Saving Mr. Banks” Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
Script To Screen: “The Godfather” Compare screenplay to movie: The famous horse head scene in The Godfather, written by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s…
Daily Dialogue — August 1, 2018 “Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever… and ever… and ever.”
Ways To Write (Part 1): Email How writer-director Judd Apatow emailed himself notes which became the foundation for the movie Knocked Up.
Screenwriting 101: Damien Chazelle “I feel like you can tell when movies start from a theme or intellectual question, and they’re not that interesting. I want to start from a…
Daily Dialogue — July 31, 2018 Annie Wilkes: The swearing, Paul. There, I said it. Paul Sheldon: The, uh, profanity bothers you? Annie Wilkes: It has no nobility. Paul…
Darth Vader was on screen in the first Star Wars movie for 8 minutes and 6 seconds Screenwriter Tom Benedek (Cocoon) analyzes Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope and how George Lucas maximized Darth Vader’s screen time.
30 Days of Screenplays, Day 28: “The Spectacular Now” Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
On Writing “Writing is only one word at a time. It’s not a whole bunch of things happening at once. Various things can present themselves, but when…
Daily Dialogue — July 30, 2018 Margaret White: He’s not coming. Carrie: He is coming, Mama. Now stop it. I’m nervous enough. Margaret White: No, he’s not coming. He’s not…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Stephen King Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,726 consecutive days and counting.
Reader Question: How can I immerse myself in the story I’m writing? “I find I get way too many projects on the front burner, which is overwhelming.”
30 Days of Screenplays, Day 27: “Wreck-It Ralph” Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
Interview (Written): Katie Silberman Conversation with the screenwriter of the romantic comedy Set It Up.
Daily Dialogue — July 29, 2018 Holland March: Munich. Jackson Healy: What? Holland March: Guy without his balls. A Munich. Jackson Healy: Munich, is a city in Germany…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 352nd installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
30 Days of Screenplays, Day 26: “American Hustle” Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
Interview (Written): Boots Riley Conversation with the writer-director of the lauded independent film Sorry to Bother You.
Daily Dialogue — July 28, 2018 Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
Q&A: Michael Arndt My exchange with the screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3 about his newest video: “Endings: The Good, the Bad and the…
