2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 9 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Writing and the Creative Life: Boundaries of Space, Boundaries of Time We all know John Cleese from his work with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, but he has also emerged as something of an…
Daily Dialogue — January 12, 2018 Lester (V.O.): You have no idea what I’m talking about, but don’t worry…
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 4): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 8 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
The Business of Screenwriting: Do you know your stuff? It’s one thing to write a script. It’s another thing to understand the craft.
Daily Dialogue — January 11, 2018 “Mr. Zero Moustafa was, at one time, the richest man in Zubrowka, and was still, indeed, the owner of The Grand Budapest…”
“Movies don’t owe anybody a living” The original quote is about music, but it pertains to all entertainment.
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 3): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 7 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Script To Screen: “Dark Star” A scene from late in the 1974 movie Dark Star, original story by John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon.
Reader Question: What about introducing the ‘hero’? On the importance of introducing the story’s Protagonist in a memorable way.
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 2): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 5 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Screenwriting 101: Jon Spaihts “Very often, even if you are just telling what seems like a good tale, theme emerges in the polishing if it didn’t emerge in the structural…
Daily Dialogue — January 9, 2018 “It was mid-afternoon, and it’s funny, I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that block. I felt like a million. There…
Reader Question: How to convey a character’s emotional state in scene description? How much latitude does a screenwriter have to ‘editorialize’ in scene description?
Go Into The Story Interview (Part 1): Liz Hannah My hour-long conversation with ‘The Post’ screenwriter Liz Hannah.
2018 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 5 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
On Writing “Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom in storytelling is…
Daily Dialogue — January 8, 2018 “Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Get Out” The entire 6 part series delving into hit social thriller movie.
