
While choosing the perfect title for your screenplay, pilot, or novel can be an arduous task, choosing character names is even more exasperating for most...
While choosing the perfect title for your screenplay, pilot, or novel can be an arduous task, choosing character names is even more exasperating for most...
Writing great screenplay dialogue is an art unto itself. Few master it. Even fewer can predict or explain the reasons why any one line stands...
I've been on both sides of the screenwriting table in Hollywood. On one side, I've tried my hardest as a professional screenwriter to crack the...
Cormac McCarthy is one of this generation's greatest literary voices — his writing has and will surely stand the test of time. His fifth novel,...
Steven Spielberg pretty much invented the modern blockbuster with Jaws. In the coming years, he directed a ton of classic films that cemented his status...
What is the ultimate place in the whole world for screenwriters to write their scripts? Forget the endless top ten lists of coffee shops and...
Collaboration with producers, directors, studio executives and representation is one thing. Writing as a screenwriting duo is a whole different beast. At the Nashville Writers...
Rebecca Williams Spindler is a screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, and instructor of Young Adult fiction at University of Wisconsin-Madison Continuing Studies. Her short screenplay...
Stephen King’s On Writing is one of the best writing resources that any writer can get their hands on — even screenwriters. Yes, King’s wise...
David Mamet, the great writer of stage plays, screenplays and prose, wrote an excellent treatise on filmmaking called "On Directing Film." His advice focuses on...