Daily Dialogue — March 4, 2017 “Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.”
Zero Draft Thirty 2017 Spring Challenge: Day 3 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
GITS Interviews — Black List Writers Over the years, I’ve interviewed dozens of writers whose scripts appeared on the annual Black List: 48 as of January 2017. Their collective…
Interview (Part 5): Geeta Malik (2016 Nicholl Winner) My 6-part chat with the writer of the winning script “Dinner With Friends”.
Writing and the Creative Life: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and story as psychological journey.
Daily Dialogue — March 3, 2017 SHREK: Donkey? What are you doing? DONKEY: I would think, of all people, you would recognize a wall when you see one. SHREK: Well, yeah…
Zero Draft Thirty 2017 Spring Challenge: Day 2 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 4): Geeta Malik (2016 Nicholl Winner) My 6-part chat with the writer of the winning script “Dinner With Friends”.
The Business of Screenwriting: Hurry up and wait We have worked on the script for months. It’s an assignment. The studio and the project’s producers have made it known emphatically since…
Daily Dialogue — March 2, 2017 “We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than…
Zero Draft Thirty 2017 Spring Challenge: Day 1 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Part 3): Geeta Malik (2016 Nicholl Winner) My 6-part chat with the writer of the winning script “Dinner With Friends”.
Great Scene: “Psycho” After I first saw the movie Psycho as an impressionable youth, there wasn’t a week that went by for several years that, while taking a…
Daily Dialogue —March 1, 2017 HARRY: Wait a minute! RON: You understand why, Harry? Once I make my move, the queen will take me. Then you’re free to check the king…
Zero Draft Thirty 2017 Spring Challenge: 1 Day and Counting! This is it, your chance to embrace Creativity Meets Productivity!
Balance between Scene Description and Dialogue What if you were to think of scene description as Narrative Voice’s dialogue?
Interview (Part 2): Geeta Malik (2016 Nicholl Winner) My 6-part chat with the writer of the winning script “Dinner With Friends”.
Screenwriting 101: Barry Jenkins “Once I’m in the writing phase of something, I do try to write something every day, seven days a week, even if it’s terrible. I think it’s…
