Question of the Day: Why do you write? Sometimes it’s important to step back and reflect on the Big Questions of Life. For writers, this is a really Big One.
Interview (Video): Martin McDonagh A BUILD Series conversation with the cast of Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and its writer-director Martin McDonagh.
Daily Dialogue — November 12, 2017 “You guys are gonna get pitch-slapped so hard, your man boobs are gonna concave.”
100 Scene-Writing Prompts At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Use these prompts to improve your scene-writing chops.
Interview (Written): Martin McDonagh Conversation with the writer-director of the new movie ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Celebration Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,467 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 315th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Interview (Written): Greta Gerwig The filmmaker discusses her career and her directing debut ‘Lady Bird’.
Daily Dialogue — November 11, 2017 Legolas: Final count, forty-two. Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that’s not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting…
Reader Question: What pitfalls to avoid when writing a script? A list of 10 Dont’s… accompanied by a list of 10 Do’s.
Video: Mastering the Screenplay: Exposition in Film A short video spotlighting some keys to handling exposition.
Script To Screen: “All About Eve” A scene from the 1950 movie All About Eve, written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and featuring one of the most famous lines of dialogue in movie…
Writing and the Creative Life: Three Types of Creators Perfecter. Innovator. Synthesizer. Which type of creative are you?
Reader question: What should be on a one sheet? There’s a traditional one-sheet. And a one sheet. I talk about both.
Spec Script Deal: “The New Mrs. Keller” Lakeshore Entertainment acquires thriller spec script “The New Mrs. Keller” written by Mark Hogan. From Variety:
Indie Directors Roundtable: Andrew Haigh, Janus Metz, Rob Reiner, Lisa Langseth and Luca Guadagnino Part of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual sit-downs with Hollywood players.
Script to Screen: “Alien” Here is a memorable scene from “Alien,” screenplay Dan O’Bannon, story by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
The Business of Screenwriting: Sometimes you’re just going to get it wrong In which I got it completely and utterly wrong about a movie project which went on to win 6 Oscars.
Daily Dialogue — November 9, 2017 Helen: I went to Thailand recently with my husband, Perry, and there’s a beautiful saying that I learned there. [Speaking Thai] It means…
Update: 2017 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 9 New Scripts, 12 Total! Get these PDFs now before the links disappear.
