A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 14 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a…
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 1) The Harvard Business Review had an interesting article recently with a series of links I thought would make for a good sets of posts in the…
Daily Dialogue — April 14, 2017 “I’m trying this new thing where I don’t talk about people behind their backs.”
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling (Part 1) The Harvard Business Review had an interesting article recently with a series of links I thought would make for a good sets of posts in the…
Reader Question: How important is a logline in a query letter? You may have already tackled this somewhere, but what are some tips for effective and engaging query letters/emails. Besides of course a…
Script Analysis: “Hell or High Water” — Part 4: Theme Read the script for the acclaimed indie crime drama and discuss this week.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 13 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a…
The Business of Screenwriting: The Birth, Life and Death of a Movie (Part 1) It’s 1997. My writing partner and I are seated in a screening room on the Paramount lot. We are there with a handful of studio execs…
Daily Dialogue — April 13, 2017 Ines looks out of the window. She waits a little too long before she turns around. The doorbell rings again.
Script Analysis: “Hell or High Water” — Part 3: Character Read the script for the acclaimed indie crime drama and discuss this week.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 12 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a…
Daily Dialogue — April 12, 2017 “I’m Kate, um, I’m… an alcoholic. Haha. I’m sorry I don’t mean to laugh, um, just those words are… weird. Um… I mean I guess I… yeah, I…
Such a great script. What the script does is daring, dropping us into the brothers’ robberies without an explanation WHY they’re doing it. Only later do we…
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Free Association You’re stuck on a scene. You’ve tried to write it 10 different ways, but nothing seems to work. Hell, it’s possible that the more you’ve…
Script Analysis: “Hell or High Water” — Part 2: Plot Read the script for the acclaimed indie crime drama and discuss this week.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 11 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a…
Screenwriting 101: Damien Chazelle “The thing I learned [from Whiplash], especially after having written a bunch of stuff that wasn’t personal, was that the more personal the…
Daily Dialogue — April 11, 2017 RHETT: What is it? This is more than losing old Frank. SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett, I’m so afraid. RHETT: I don’t believe it. You’ve never been…
Script Analysis: “Hell or High Water” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown Read the script for the acclaimed indie crime drama and discuss this week.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 10 This is the eighth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a…
On Writing “The discipline involved in finishing a piece of creative work is something on which you can truly pride yourself. You’ll have turned…
