The amount of so-called screenwriting rules out there is beyond epidemic. These fake rules have become a virus that sweep through social media infecting the...
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In the competitive world of screenwriting (and filmmaking) where industry readers judge your script in the first few pages, openings are a vital part of...

Every story begins at your Initial Stimulus – that spark of an idea that captured your imagination. The thing that got you excited and revved...

With over twenty-five years of professional story development and screenwriting experience, and nearly two decades of teaching screenwriting at the MFA level, I’ve had the...

If you analyze screenplays and films you are bound to find commonalities that exist among the ones that are successful and the ones that aren’t....