Streaming channels are ramping up their development and production slates at rapid rates — how can screenwriters cash in? We all know how popular Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Hulu, and at…
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Screenwriters have high expectations when it comes to reading script coverage of their own screenplays — as they should — but it’s important to know what you should and shouldn’t…
What are some of the most common mistakes screenwriters make when writing dialogue scenes? In most screenplays, there are at least a couple of lines of dialogue in every scene….
What if we took a look at a successful script and imagined how a lesser screenwriter would have handled some of those iconic cinematic moments? What screenwriting lessons would that…
What screenwriting wisdom can we learn from the late, great storytelling master Stan Lee? We’re still mourning the loss of Stan Lee, an iconic storyteller that created many of the…
If you had to boil everything down to the bone in the realm of the art, craft, and business of screenwriting, you’d be left with three core elements — Concept,…
Why do screenwriters need to be pitching if their scripts are good enough to get them into meetings in the first place? At first glance to most screenwriters, it makes no…
Choosing the right concept to develop into a screenplay is one thing — deciding which genre you’ll write it as is a whole different puzzle to solve. It’s not enough…
Many screenwriters dream of writing the scripts for video games and reaping the profits of an industry that is far more profitable than the film and television industries that screenwriters…
Believe it or not, the first screenwriting book was written more than a decade before the Hollywood sign was erected in 1923. During the early days of what would eventually…
