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10 Screenwriters on Screenwriting: Vol. 5

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.

Writing Mantra: “Writing is rewriting”

Perhaps no more true than in relation to screenwriting.

2017 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 4

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Writing and the Creative Life: What to do when you feel out of touch with your creative energy

When a creative spark seems so very far, far… FAR… away…

Daily Dialogue — August 4, 2017

Han Solo: Han Solo. I’m captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells me you’re lookin’ for passage to the Alderaan system? Ben…

2017 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 3

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Reader Question: What to do when a manager responds, “I liked the writing but…”

Get ready for some cold, harsh truth about Hollywood passes.

10 Screenwriters on Screenwriting: Vol. 4

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.

“5 Hollywood Meetings You Should Master and How to Do It”

As a Hollywood writer, you may expect to take meetings. A lot of them.

The Business of Screenwriting: “I don’t have to smell it to sell it”

An object lesson in Agent Talk.

Daily Dialogue — August 3, 2017

MR. LEE: Take the money. D-FENS: You think I’ m a thief? No, you see, I’ m not the thief. I’ m not the one charging 85 cents for a stinking…

A Screenwriter’s Guide to Character Types

Free downloadable Go Into The Story eBook by Scott Myers.

10 Screenwriters on Screenwriting: Vol. 3

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.

THR 2017 Drama Showrunner Roundtable

A 48 minute conversation featuring some of today’s top TV producers.

2017 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 2

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The Silence of the Lambs”

A 10 part series on the 1991 Oscar winning screenplay.

Daily Dialogue — August 2, 2017

Travis Bickle: You got a .44 magnum? Gun Salesman (Andy): It’s an expensive weapon. Travis Bickle: That’s all right. I got money. Gun…

Writing an Original TV Pilot

How ‘family of characters’ drives series television.

10 Screenwriters on Screenwriting: Vol. 2

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.

Chris McQuarrie’s Story About Visiting Devil’s Tower

In a series of tweets, the writer-director talks about a ‘close encounter’.

2017 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 1

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Screenwriting 101: Taylor Sheridan

“That’s the goal of a screenwriter: to allow audiences into a world where they can’t predict what’s going to happen.”

Daily Dialogue —August 1, 2017

“They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you’re gonna be miles away before you find out you got…

Reader Question: How to balance writing theory and the actual writing?

What if learning theory and trying to put it into practice stymies creativity?

10 Screenwriters on Screenwriting: Vol. 1

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.