Screenwriting Tweetstorms
Once upon a time, Twitter was a perfect social medium for screenwriters. To waste time, of course, but the impulse to dash off a thought here or there was pretty common to writers who traffic in words pretty much all the time. Occasionally something wonderful happens: A professional writer would go off on a tweetstorm, taking on a subject at some depth, albeit in 280 characters bites.
They tended to disappear down the relentless and unending Twitter feed rabbit hole, so I decided to create an archive for them here.
Sadly, many of them vanished when a certain zillionaire bought Twitter and … well, you know.
Anyway, I’m working my way through these linked articles to see which ones are still alive.
Monica Beletsky: On Establishing POV in a TV Pilot Script
Monica Beletsky: On How to Be a Star on a TV Writing Staff
F. Scott Frazier: On Writing Action Set-Pieces
Javi Grillo-Marxuach: On Writing Screenplay Scene Description
Alexi Hawley: On Surviving as a Screenwriter in Hollywood
Eric Heisserer: On Finding the Joy in Your Writing
Eric Heisserer: On Drafts, Parenthicals and Respect
Eric Heisserer: On How to Treat a Film Crew
Eric Heisserer: On Loglines
Eric Heisserer: On Losing the Love for a Story
Eric Heisserer: On Minimalist Screenwriting Style
Eric Heisserer: On Pitching
Eric Heisserer: On Procrastination, Precrastination and Productivity in Writing
Eric Heisserer: On Story Notes
Eric Heisserer: On Subtext
Eric Heisserer: On the Challenge of Screenplay Adaptations
Eric Heisserer: On the Current Slate of Action Heroes
Eric Heisserer: On the Screenwriter’s Creative Power
Eric Heisserer: On When a Writer Should Walk Away From a Project
Eric Heisserer: On Writing and Cultural Sensitivity
Melissa Hilfers: On the Attitude to Have When Taking a Meeting
Bryan Edward Hill: On a Key to Writing Genre Stories
Bryan Edward Hill: On Keys to Writing Scene Description
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds: On Developing and Delivering a Pitch
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds: On the Ups and Downs of a Hollywood Writer
Daniel Kunka: On the One Thing a Hollywood Writer Can Control
Daniel Kunka: On Being a Productive Writer
Daniel Kunka: On “Lincoln” and the Value of Reading Scripts
Daniel Kunka: On OWAs (Open Writing Assignments)
Daniel Kunka: On the Importance of Ideas
Daniel Kunka: On Writing Feature Spec Scripts in the Age of Peak TV
Geoff LaTulippe (@DrGMLaTulippe): On Avoiding Red Flags in Screenplays
Geoff LaTulippe (@DrGMLaTulippe): On Hollywood Script Development Process
Geoff LaTulippe (@DrGMLaTulippe): On Studio Script Development Process
Jeff Lieber (@JeffLieber): On How a Pilot Script Works
Justin Marks (@Justin_Marks_): On Script Page Count
Justin Marks (@Justin_Marks_) : On Exposition
Craig Mazin (@clmazin): On the Working Relationship Between Studio Execs and Writers
Craig Mazin (@clmazin): On Script Consultants
Chris McQuarrie (@chrismcquarrie): On the “Secret to a Rewarding Career in Film”
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On How a Development Team Works
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On Life as a Development Executive
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On Movies as a Business
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On the Self-Delusion Imperative
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On Treatments and Outlines
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On What Makes a Writer Stand Out
Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO): On Writers, Script Notes, and the “Gap”
Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon): On Pitching
Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon): On Story Structure, What It Is, and How to Find It
Zach Stentz (@MuseZack): On Being ‘Good in a Room’
Zach Stentz (@MuseZack): On Rewriting Strategies
Mike Sweeney (@Courier12): On Being More Than a Black List Writer
Mike Sweeney (@Courier12): On Focusing on the Quality of Your Spec Scripts, Not the Quantity
Mike Sweeney (@Courier12): On ‘New Screenwriting Rules’
Mike Sweeney (@Courier12): On Not Writing to Stats, Metrics, and Trends
Jake Thornton (@jakethornton): On His First Two Years as a Hollywood Screenwriter
Jeff Willis (@jwillis81): On Copyrights and Protecting Your Written Material
Jeff Willis (@jwillis81): On Query Letters
Jeff Willis (@jwillis81): On Should You Pay for a Script Consultant
Jeff Willis (@jwillis81): On the Reality of Spec Script Sales
Jeff Willis (@jwillis81): On Writing Compensation
Nate Winslow (@nate_winslow): On the Black List, Uploaded Scripts and Genres
Ed Zwick (@edwardzwick1): On Keys to Screenwriting