5 Screenwriting Skills: #2 — Knowledge To know your stuff, you need to immerse yourself in the world of cinema.
Screenwriting 101: Aaron Guzikowski “I think you just have to continually keep yourself excited about it. You can’t really look at it like you’re rewriting. You have to look…
What kind of writer do you want to be in 2017? Setting goals and meeting them is key creative growth and productivity.
“You have to be reckless when writing…” Oftentimes we are at our best creatively when we let go and cut loose.
5 Screenwriting Skills: #1 — Talent There’s no way around the fact you have to have a flair for writing.
On Writing “The characters I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.”
Daily Dialogue — November 28, 2016 “Well, ‘ere, lads, you’ve discovered a species hitherto unknown to science, quite possibly non-terrestrial in origin, and you kicked its…
There is something to writing like you just don’t give a shit about what others think of your story. Glad to hear that Norman quote resonated with you, Will!
Daily Dialogue — November 27, 2016 “And in the case of the telephone, it’s up to each and every one of you, my highly-trained Strattonites. My killers, my killers who will…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Alien Invasion Join the Daily Dialogue team: 3,117 consecutive days and counting.
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 265th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Interview: Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, “Moonlight” A Black List Table Reads podcast featuring Franklin Leonard interviewing Moonlight writers Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Daily Dialogue — November 26, 2016 “Whoo! The Chief put his hand up! He put his hand up! Nurse Ratchett, would you please turn the television on?”
Thanks, Ashley. I’ve fixed the Kubo link and check out the most recent update on 2016 scripts: https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2016-award-season-screenplay-downloads-27-total-5953667526cb#.uupn6j42g
Writing Comedy in the New Dark Age In these deeply troubled times, what’s the point of writing comedy?
5 Screenwriting Traits: #5 — Persistence Perhaps the single most important trait for a screenwriter to have.
Great Characters: Del Griffith (“Planes, Trains & Automobiles”) Typically Trickster characters are master shapeshifters, switching ‘masks’ from one scene to another. Part of this dynamic is a reflection…
Starting a screenwriting career outside of LA (or New York, or London) John August features non-L.A. based writers who broke into the business.
