Go Into The Story

Script Analysis: “Whiplash” — Scene By Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

The Business of Screenwriting: Imagine the movie

One test of a story concept: Can you imagine it as a movie?

Page One: “Jackie Brown” (1997)

Written for the screen by Quentin Tarantino, novel by Elmore Leonard

Rod Serling on Writing

Part 3 of a 16-part series featuring the master storyteller on video.

2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 23

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

Script Analysis: “Us” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown

Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:

How They Write A Script: Nancy Meyers

Nancy Meyers was for many years part of the Meyers & Shyer writing team that produced numerous hit movies including Private Benjamin…

Page One: “It’s Complicated” (2009)

Written by Nancy Meyers

Jerry, it may help you to think of want as your Protagonist’s conscious goal: what is the specific…

Keep asking that question: What does my Protagonist need? What is their deepest need? What is their unconscious goal? Keep digging into the…

I just checked it. Works for me:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49bAscvFVQ6SS16ZjIxVnVLOGc/view?resourcekey=0-S-ZdOZo0YmZIaS_VkBrV_Q

It's Tyler's backhanded "compliment" which piques Narrator's curiosity.

It's a good exchange to remember, as you have, because to me it sends a message to writers: Clever writing is okay. Emotionally authentic…

Mezzen, if you need inspiration, I suggest you check out writing quotes here:

And here:

Michell, the quote reminds me of this from Isaac Asimov:

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

Rod Serling on Writing

Part 2 of a 16-part series featuring the master storyteller on video.

2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 22

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

Spec Script Deal: “Fantasy Camp”

Occasionally, a writer will contact me about a spec script deal which took place in the past and is not included in my files. Here is a…

Screenwriting 101: Guillermo del Toro

“If you’re not operating on an instinctive level, you’re not an artist. Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit. We suffocate…

Page One: “The Italian Job” (2003)

Screenplay by Donna Powers & Wayne Powers, 1969 screenplay by Troy Kennedy-Martin

Rod Serling on Writing

Part 1 of a 16-part series featuring the master storyteller on video.

2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 21

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

Spec Script Deal: “Day Drinker”

30West acquires supernatural thriller spec script “Day Drinker” written by Zach Dean. Via Deadline:

On Writing

“I’ve never written a book, except my first, without at some point considering that I might die before it was completed. This is all part…

Page One: “It Follows” (2014)

Written by David Robert Mitchell

Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies”

A weekly series featuring reflections on filmmaking by one of the truly great movie directors.

2022 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 20

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