A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 3 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 2): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
Screenwriting 101: Jessica Bendinger “You can totally lose your voice when you are playing what I call My Little Pony. At least I do. I have to watch becoming a performing pony…
Daily Dialogue — April 3, 2018 “You know what? When I look back on my little life and the birds I’ve known, and think of all the things they’ve done for me and the little…
Interview (Part 1): Jen Bailey and Max Lance My interview with the 2017 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winners.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 2 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…
Daily Dialogue — April 2, 2018 “Basically, Lewis Ranieri’s mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 1 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…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Mudbound” The entire 6 part series delving into the critically acclaimed indie film.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: FADE OUT! FADE IN. FADE OUT. 31 Days. That describes what just transpired in March. Dozens of writers from around the world dove into their script…
Daily Dialogue — April 1, 2018 “Oh man, shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking ass up. Leave me alone!”
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Breaking the 4th Wall Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,607 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 335th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Script Analysis: “Mudbound” — Part 6: Takeaways Read the script for the critically acclaimed indie film and analyze it all this week.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 31 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Edgar Wright interviews Steven Spielberg The filmmakers talk about the movie which launched Spielberg’s career as a movie director: Duel.
Daily Dialogue — March 31, 2018 C.D. Bales: [challenged to think of twenty jokes better than “Big Nose”] Let’s start with… Obvious: ‘scuse me, is that your nose or did a…
Mudbound uses voice-over narration, but in a way that’s considerably different than what we… Here is an especially memorable side of voice-over narration given by Hap Jackson, the father figure of the Jackson family…
Reader Question: Do all Protagonists need a character arc? A character’s ‘arc’ is a big buzzword in Hollywood development circles.
Script Analysis: “Mudbound” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the script for the critically acclaimed indie film and analyze it all this week.
2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 30 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Writing and the Creative Life: Of Beginnings and Endings Remember when you first came up with the story idea you’re currently writing? How great that felt?
