Go Into The Story

Interview (Written): Max Borenstein

A conversation with the co-screenwriter of Godzilla vs Kong.

Page One: “The Elephant Man” (1980)

Screenplay by Christopher De Vore & Eric Bergren & David Lynch, book by Frederick Treves

2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 26

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

Happy Birthday, Joseph Campbell!

Joseph Campbell’s birthday is today. If he were alive, he would 117 years old. His physical body died in 1987, but his ideas live on.

Writing and the Creative Life: Trust the Process

“There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be…

Page One: “Election” (1999)

Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, novel by Tom Perrotta

How Being a New York Mets Fan Prepared Me to Be a Screenwriter

Is it their two World Series championships? Their five pennants? Their star players like Tom Seaver and David Wright? Nah. It’s their…

2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 25

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

“Movies don’t owe anybody a living”

The original quote is about music, but it pertains to all entertainment.

Page One: “Easy A” (2010)

Written by Bert V. Royal

Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing”

A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed writer’s memoir.

2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 24

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

Great Scene: “Up”

Carl gets the house to the top of Paradise Falls, but it’s a Pyrrhic victory.

Page One: “The Driver” (1978)

Written by Walter Hill

Write a Worthy Nemesis

Workshop your story’s antagonist character in my 1-week online course. Begins Monday, April 6th.

2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 23

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

Video: 2021 Beyond Words

The annual event presented by the Writers Guild Foundation and Writers Guild of America West featuring WGA nominated screenwriters for…

Screenwriting 101: Will Simmons

“Transitions between scenes are absolutely essential to a script’s pacing. There should be a rhythmic quality to the writing, where each…

Page One: “Drive” (2011)

Screenplay by Hossein Amini, book by James Sallis

2021 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 22

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

Interviews with 44 Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Winners

My in-depth conversations with every Nicholl recipient since 2012.

On Writing

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

Page One: “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” (1986)

Screenplay by Paul Mazursky & Leon Capetanos, play by René Fauchois

Laura, in the sense that there are two parallel Big Storylines -- the trial and the build-up to and…

That said, there is the Small Story -- Hoffman and Hayden -- which plays out at its own pace. Definitely tethered to the events of the…

Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing”

A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed writer.