Interview (Part 4): Stephanie Shannon 2013 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting winner and Black List honoree.
Black List writers on the craft: Story Concepts (Part 4) Over the years, I have interviewed over 40 Black List screenwriters. This month, I will run a series featuring one topic per week related…
Screenwriting Lessons: “The Social Network” — Part 3: Theme A five-part series exploring lessons we can glean from Aaron Sorkin’s script.
The Business of Screenwriting: Going to the movies One of the most important ways you can learn the craft of screenwriting is by watching movies. Studying them. Breaking them down sequence…
Reader Question: Should I take my name off a script? Tough situation: Your movie gets made, but it turned out badly.
Interview (Part 3): Stephanie Shannon 2013 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting winner and Black List honoree.
Actually, Paula, while Sorkin may not have CREATED Zuckerberg, he most certainly CRAFTED his… Sorkin admitted as much in his Golden Globe Award acceptance speech, thanking Zuckerberg for allowing him to make a “version” of Zuckerberg…
Screenwriting Lessons: “The Social Network” — Part 2: Narrative Framework A five-part series exploring lessons we can glean from Aaron Sorkin’s script.
Daily Dialogue — June 14, 2017 BERNSTEIN talking softly from a relatively private phone in the newsroom. The voice of the lawyer is also whispered and scared to death.
Reader Question: What does “literary style” mean in terms of writing a screenplay? Over time, screenplays have become less ‘scripty’ and more ‘literary’.
Interview (Part 2): Stephanie Shannon 2013 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting winner and Black List honoree.
Screenwriting Lessons: “The Social Network” — Part 1: Compelling Protagonist A five-part series exploring lessons we can glean from Aaron Sorkin’s script.
Screenwriting 101: Donald Margulies “Research can be seductive. Writers try to convince themselves that research is writing, but the truth is research is research. There comes…
Daily Dialogue — June 13, 2017 Phone Voice: You still haven’t told me your name. Casey: [smiling] Why do you want to know my name? Phone Voice: Because I want to know who…
Interview (Part 1): Stephanie Shannon 2013 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting winner and Black List honoree.
On Writing “Writing is facing your deepest fears and all your failures, including how hard it is to write a lot of the time and how much you loathe…
Daily Dialogue — June 12, 2017 Bill Cabot: [at the stadium in Baltimore; answers his cell phone] Yeah, this is Cabot. Jack: [in a helicopter near Baltimore] The bomb is…
Black List writers on the craft: Story Prep A six-part series featuring a variety of ways to approach breaking a story.
Daily Dialogue — June 11, 2017 “In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old…
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