Mickey, I hear you re the troubles you’ve been having with your story. Re your concern about protecting your intellectual property: I’ve probably offered the Prep course 40+ times and never had any trouble on…
Screenwriting Lessons: “True Grit” A five-part series exploring lessons from the Coen brothers screenplay.
Screenwriting Lessons: “The King’s Speech” A five-part series exploring lessons from David Seidler’s Oscar winning script.
Screenwriting Lessons: “The Social Network” A five-part series exploring lessons we can glean from Aaron Sorkin’s script.
Video: 2017 Santa Barbara Film Festival The screenwriting panel from the event in February this year.
Daily Dialogue — July 2, 2017 “Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Sacrifice Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 3,334 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 296th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Daily Dialogue — July 1, 2017 “Among the few possessions he left to his heirs was a set of Encyclopedia Britannica in storage at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel under the…
Christopher Nolan on the Story and Structure of “Memento” An 18 minute video from 2001 including Nolan’s chalkboard diagram.
Black List writers on the craft: Theme (Part 5) Over the years, I have interviewed over 40 Black List screenwriters. This month, I am running a series featuring one topic per week related…
Screenwriting Lessons: “True Grit” — Part 5: Mentor Five-part series exploring lessons from the Coen brothers screenplay.
Writing and the Creative Life: What are you afraid of? The single greatest inhibitor to creativity is fear. Do you recognize any of these voices?
Daily Dialogue — June 30, 2017 “I’m not a killer. I’m just someone who wanted to make things right. Can’t I just let myself forget what you’ve told me? Can’t I just let…
Reader Question: What is life really like for a beginning screenwriter who has just broken into the… Reader question from Eric Harris:
When Hollywood Loses Control: How Foreign Box Office Owns the Movie Business Screenwriters and filmmakers, are you paying attention?
Screenwriting Lessons: “True Grit” — Part 4: Voice-Over Narration Five-part series exploring lessons from the Coen brothers screenplay.
The Business of Screenwriting: Going From Suck to Non-Suck Screenwriters experience persistent suckitude. The key: Go to non-suck.
Daily Dialogue — June 29, 2017 “Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It’s about five o’clock in the morning. That’s the Homicide Squad — complete with…
Reader Question: How to approach writing jokes in a comedy script? Be funny, but not at the expense of character.
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Create an argument Let’s say you’re stuck writing a flat scene. No matter how you’ve approached it, the scene just lays there.
Screenwriting Lessons: “True Grit” — Part 3: Absent Nemesis Five-part series exploring lessons from the Coen brothers screenplay.
