Go Into The Story Interview: Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
Interview (Video): Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater in Conversation A half-hour talk between the pair of noted writer-directors.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 336th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 7 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Interview (Part 6): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Femme Fatale Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,614 consecutive days and counting.
Daily Dialogue — April 7, 2018 “Top five things I miss about Laura. One… sense of humor. Very dry, but it can also be warm and forgiving. And she’s got one of the best…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 6 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Reader Question: Who is the Nemesis in “character driven” films? Is it necessary for more character-oriented movies to feature a specific Antagonist figure?
Interview (Part 5): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
Writing and the Creative Life: “Nothing succeeds like failure” Re-thinking the role of failure in the creative life.
Daily Dialogue — April 6, 2018 Man in White Suit gets up out of his front row seat in the movie theater and approaches the camera:
“How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described In Their Screenplays” A journey through many scripted female character introductions, both fascinating… and educational.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 5 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Interview (Part 4): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs Part 9: “Own All The Tickets”
Daily Dialogue — April 5, 2018 Henry Hill: Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I bet twenty, thirty…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 4 This is the 9th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Several reasons which I’ll work my…
Interview (Part 3): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
Script To Screen: “The English Patient” A moment of obsessed love explored in this scene from the 1996 movie The English Patient, screenplay by Anthony Minghella, novel by Michael…
In the podcast, the guy mentioned that they DO have special facilities to put cops who have been… Your twist could work: Cop does something to get sentenced to prison to exact revenge. Of course, couldn’t he just pay some inmates to…
Reader Question: Is it okay for there to be more action lines in an action script? Once again into the breach against so-called screenwriting ‘rules’.
