Go Into The Story

Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2020

“You don’t remember me. We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.”

2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 14

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.

Daily Dialogue theme next week: Diner

Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 4,321 consecutive days and counting.

Interview: Jason Orley

A conversation with the writer-director of the new indie comedy Big Time Adolescence.

Daily Dialogue — March 14, 2020

Viggo Tarasov: It’s not what you did, son, that angers me so. It’s who you did it to. Iosef Tarasov: Who? That fucking nobody? Viggo…

How do the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting readers judge a script?

The criteria they use provides a good list of questions for screenwriters to assess their own writing.

Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.

2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 13

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Writing and the Creative Life: 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

Are you creative? Chances are you do some things differently.

Daily Dialogue — March 13, 2020

“Enough is enough! I have had it with the motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”

10 Screenwriting Do’s and Don’ts

It’s one thing to avoid screenwriting pitfalls, but what should we be doing right?

Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 4: Themes

Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.

2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 12

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

The Business of Screenwriting: “God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason”

I’m at lunch with our agents in Beverly Hills. It’s February, 1987. The deal where Universal Pictures bought our spec script K-9 is…

Daily Dialogue — March 12, 2020

“You’re a disease, and I’m the cure.”

Test Your Story Concept

5 questions to ask about a story idea to assess its viability as a scripted project.

2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 11

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 3: Characters

Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.

Spec Script Deal: “Murder In The White House”

Paramount Pictures acquires mystery thriller “Murder in the White House” written by Jonathan Stokes. Via Deadline:

Daily Dialogue — March 11, 2020

“I’m gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank.”

Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages.

I came up with this screenwriting mantra a decade ago. Still works.

2020 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 10

One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.

Script Analysis: “Avengers: Endgame” — Part 2: Plot

Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.

Screenwriting 101: Noah Baumbach

“When something strikes me, I write it down in a notebook. I’ll often find I write versions of the same idea over and over with slight…