
Jared Frieder wrote his first novella in elementary school entitled, "If Lucy's in the Sky, She'll Probably Need a Parachute." He is currently working with...
Jared Frieder wrote his first novella in elementary school entitled, "If Lucy's in the Sky, She'll Probably Need a Parachute." He is currently working with...
Zac Atkinson is a screenwriter on the TV show Transformers: Rescue Bots. He's an L.A. resident obsessed with robots, gnomes, and flannel shirts. He's an avid...
Here at ScreenCraft we receive THOUSANDS of screenplay submissions for our contests and one thing always rings true for the ones that get past our...
At some point or another you've probably sat down and closed your eyes and imagined what it would be like to be a professional screenwriter. Many...
In Hollywood if you throw a brick you're going to hit a "writer." It seems that everyone and their gardener has something to pitch. Every...
So you want to be a writer in Hollywood? JOIN THE PILOT LAUNCH- Final Deadline MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 11:59PM In a recent “Story” seminar Robert...
"Help, I’m stuck!" Those three words are what writers fear the most. We’ve all had it happen, whether it happens on page 50, 150, or...
Billy Wilder gave us such classics as The Lost Weekend (1945) (Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and Sunset Blvd. (1950) (Oscars for Best Screenplay), Double Indemnity...
In the beginning of “Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect” by Claudia Hunter Johnson there is an exercise the writer refers to as “Le Menu”. Write...
In a post this week by John August he discusses genre and how characters play to or against audience expectations. When writing or trying to...