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Set Pieces, Part 5: Entertainment

A series this week on set pieces: A scene or set of scenes with a big idea, feel and/or scope to them, oftentimes associated with major…

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 10

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Writing and the Creative Life: The Mundane and the Marvelous

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”

Daily Dialogue — August 17, 2018

“That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? Making the wrong move at the right time.”

2018 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge!

30 days. Fade In. Fade Out. Write an entire zero draft.

Set Pieces, Part 4: Complications, Roadblocks and Reversals

A series this week on set pieces: A scene or set of scenes with a big idea, feel and/or scope to them, oftentimes associated with major…

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 9

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

The Business of Screenwritng: I can do that!

A writer rises to meet the challenge of any story.

Daily Dialogue — August 16, 2018

“Twenty-two, twenty-two, come on back to me, come on back to me!”

Special Note to European Based Writers!

Upcoming Master Classes with me in London and Cologne!

Set Pieces, Part 3: Stakes

A series this week on set pieces: A scene or set of scenes with a big idea, feel and/or scope to them, oftentimes associated with major…

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 8

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Script To Screen: “Grosse Pointe Blank”

From the 1997 movie Grosse Pointe Blank, screenplay by Tom Jankiewicz and D.V. DeVincentis & Steve Pink & John Cusack, story by Tom…

Daily Dialogue — August 15, 2018

The inmates are playing cards and betting with cigarettes.

Interview: Scott Myers

75 minutes of yours truly on “The Process with Brad Wilson” podcast on creativity, productivity, and the power behind the adage “Follow…

Set Pieces, Part 2: Emotional Meaning

One of the most valuable pieces of brainstorming a screenwriter can do with regard to a story is conjure up some good set pieces.

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 7

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

Screenwriting 101: Dustin Lance Black

“That’s where I start, taking an idea, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, and figuring out why — not just what you’re going to tell, not…

Daily Dialogue — August 14, 2018

Charlie: Now casinos have house rules: they don’t like to lose. So you never show that you’re counting cards. That is the cardinal sin…

Plot = Structure

Explore inner workings of the screenplay universe: Plotline and Themeline.

Set Pieces, Part 1: Spin the Plot

One of the most valuable pieces of brainstorming a screenwriter can do with regard to a story is conjure up some good set pieces.

2018 Scene-Writing Challenge: Day 6

Write some scenes. Win a great prize.

On Writing

“When I write, I live with my characters. It’s like going to work. You see the people at the next desk in full regalia all the time, and…

Daily Dialogue — August 13, 2018

Macon: Well, looks like you just about cleaned everybody out, fellah. You haven’t lost a hand since you got to deal. What’s the secret of…

Screenwriting News (August 6 — August 12, 2018)

The week’s writing deals and movie project news.