
A well-crafted story typically consists of multiple elements working together to engage the reader or audience, inform and entertain them, and convey the writer’s intended...
A well-crafted story typically consists of multiple elements working together to engage the reader or audience, inform and entertain them, and convey the writer’s intended...
A rare white whale in the film and TV industry is transparency. Its lack keeps many gates in this business tightly shut to outsiders. So,...
Will Thacker spilling his orange juice on movie star Anna Scott, Sam Baldwin meeting Annie Reed on the top of the Empire State Building, and...
If there is a modern-day aspiring figure to look to when dreaming of breaking into Hollywood as a screenwriter, Diablo Cody is the writer to look to....
Looking at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival program, there are quite a few films that grab our attention. But why? Is it the feature image?...
TV’s biggest night, the Emmy Awards, is a celebration of the television shows we spend crucial hours of our lives anticipating, watching, and discussing. It...
Ah, plot holes — those pesky narrative inconsistencies that plague all writers regardless of their experience level. You know one when you see one. It's the...
Beginning. Middle. End. That is the most simplistic way to open a discussion about the three-act structure. No matter what screenwriting philosophy you read, "secret"...
William Goldman, a great screenwriter who was also a great screenwriting teacher, had much priceless advice for screenwriters, but probably the most priceless of all...
The best thing about writing a TV spec script is the research. And by research, I of course mean watching episode after episode after episode...