
Cinema and television may be visual mediums, but they are highly enhanced by—and reliant on—music. Imagine Star Wars without the iconic musical score. Or how...
Cinema and television may be visual mediums, but they are highly enhanced by—and reliant on—music. Imagine Star Wars without the iconic musical score. Or how...
Pacing is the single most important element of your screenplay when it comes to the reading experience. A script that's easier to read is almost...
Visit any Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter screenwriting thread, and you'll witness much debate when it comes to any form of screenwriting advice offered or questioned....
The short answer to this question is: If you're not getting paid to write it, the screenplay you are writing is known as a spec...
Copyright can be tricky. Too many novice screenwriters out there don't understand the dynamics of it and end up either unknowingly using someone else's copyright...
Every screenwriter has completed a polish draft on their own—hopefully many. In the final stage, you conduct last-second checks for grammar, spelling, and formatting errors;...
Ron Shelton—Oscar-nominated writer and director behind classics like Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, and Tin Cup—recently wrote an outstanding book about the writing and...
To be or not to be. No, no no no—that’s not the question. Does your script have a central question? Now that is the question....
I don’t know about you, but as a writer, there’s never a time when I’m more insecure than at the very beginning of a new...
Character archetypes exist for a reason: audiences are familiar with them. Whether they come from cinematic stories on the big screen or the small screen,...