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. I have vetted the bold ones, so they are good to go.
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
Justin Marks: On Script Page Count
Justin Marks: On Exposition
Craig Mazin: On the Working Relationship Between Studio Execs and Writers
Rachael Prior: On How a Development Team Works
Rachael Prior: On Life as a Development Executive
Rachael Prior: On Movies as a Business
Rachael Prior: On the Self-Delusion Imperative
Rachael Prior: On Treatments and Outlines
Rachael Prior: On What Makes a Writer Stand Out
Rachael Prior: On Writers, Script Notes, and the “Gap”
Zach Stentz: On Being ‘Good in a Room’
Zach Stentz: On Rewriting Strategies
Mike Sweeney: On Being More Than a Black List Writer
Mike Sweeney: On ‘New Screenwriting Rules’
Mike Sweeney: On Not Writing to Stats, Metrics, and Trends
Jake Thornton: On His First Two Years as a Hollywood Screenwriter
Jeff Willis: On Copyrights and Protecting Your Written Material
Jeff Willis: On Query Letters
Jeff Willis On Should You Pay for a Script Consultant
Jeff Willis: On the Reality of Spec Script Sales
Jeff Willis: On Writing Compensation
Ed Zwick: On Keys to Screenwriting