Tweetstorm: F. Scott Frazier on Writing Action Set-Pieces A series of tweets delving into what goes into crafting action scenarios.
Video: Telling a Story from the Inside Out A look at Pixar’s creative process in crafting the script for Inside Out.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The End of the Tour” A 6 part series on the 2016 Spirit Award nominated screenplay.
Screenwriting 101: Wes Anderson “The project almost always begins with a character or a group of characters. Usually there’s a sort of world that’s tied in. The last film…
Tweetstorm: Jake Thornton on His First Two Years as a Hollywood Screenwriter A series of tweets detailing one writer’s experience breaking into Hollywood.
30 Years of Movie Villains, Visualized 9 Different Ways Charts, charts, and more charts about cinematic Bad Guys/Gals.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “12 Years a Slave” A 6 part series on the 2014 Academy Award winning script.
Damien, and who knows what of those experiences will impact you in unknown, yet (hopefully)… If you love writing, keep doing it. You never know what will come of it.
On Writing “Use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English — it is the modern way and the best way…
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…
