Script Analysis: “Arrival” — Scene By Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Page One: “The Mummy” (2017) Screenplay by David Koepp and Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman, screen story by Jon Spaihts and Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet
Go from Fade In to Fade Out This Summer! Knock out a first draft of your feature film script project in my upcoming online writing workshop. Starts July 21st!
Screenwriting 101: Philip Dunne “If you get an idea in the middle of the night, it’s a good idea to get up and write it down, or it’s gone. There’s a famous story about a…
Script Analysis: “Aftersun” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
Tarantino, Sorkin, and Dialogue as Purpose Analysis of long dialogue-centric scenes in The Social Network and Pulp Fiction reveals that underneath the entertaining conversations lies…
Go Into The Story Interview: Laura Kosann My interview with the writer who not only was named a 2021 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting recipient, but also had two scripts make…
On Writing “I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment fault-finding…
Plotter versus Pantser A writer who focuses on novels and short stories asks which approach screenwriters take.
Screenwriting 101: Philip Dunne “Never leave a scene by the same door you came in. Every scene should advance the story. The other thing… let the characters tell the…
Go Into The Story Interview: Stefan Jaworski My interview with 2021 Black List writers for his script Mercury.
“How do I know when I’ve done enough character work …” Great question! One that arose in the current Character Development Keys course in one of our active message board discussions. Here is my…
“Sorry, Baby”: This Summer’s Must-See Movie It hits theaters in North America the weekend of July 4th. Please see this movie. It’s wonderful.
There is no right way to write Learn all you can, but ultimately it’s about your Stories and your Creative Self.
On Writing “You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
Writing and the Creative Life: Look… don’t overlook As writers in order for us to have any hope of securing a meaningful degree of understanding of a story universe and its characters, we…
Page One: “The Mother” (2023) Screenplay by Misha Green and Andrea Berloff and Peter Craig, story by Misha Green
Spec Script Deal: “The Romantic” Paramount Pictures acquires romantic comedy spec script “The Romantic” written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Via Deadline:
