Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2018] Here are prompts for the 4th annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.
Daily Dialogue —January 31, 2018 “People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than…
The script to Coco is a master class in how one can write a story with a classic Hero’s Journey… We will get more into this in the Plot and Theme posts, but Coco is Pixar hitting on all creative cylinders, great to see after a few…
The Definitive Spec Script Deals List [1991–2017] Details on over 2,000 reported spec script deals over the last quarter century.
Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 2: Plot Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 20 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Screenwriting 101: Ben Jacoby “A lot of scripts are minimalist now, they have a lot of white space on the page. And that can be great. But I’d rather have a few extra…
Keys to Handling Exposition Take my 1-week online class to learn ways to make exposition entertaining.
Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 19 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
On Writing “First draft: Let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: Hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: Comb its nose…
Daily Dialogue — January 29, 2018 “There’s nothing else. Just us. And the cameras. And those wonderful people out there in the dark.”
Videos: Academy Originals Screenwriter Interviews Featuring John August, Ava DuVernay, Eric Roth, Aline Brosh McKenna, David Seidler, Dustin Lance Black, and more.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Week 4 Writing prompts #14–18. Practice writing dialogue. Win a free class with me.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Whisper Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,544 consecutive days and counting.
Spec Script Deals Analysis 2017: First-Timers As we continue our analysis of spec script sales in 2017, today we check out the first-timers, writers who broke into the business by…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 326th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
The next Go Into The Story Reading and Analysis Script: “Coco” Read the script for the hit animated comedy and analyze it next week.
Reader Question: Is it useful to read a bad script to see what not to do? Can we learn something from slogging through bad screenplays?
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