To Whom it May Concern at The Fred Rogers Company / Family Communications, I have just learned from my friend Adi Shankar that you filed a copyright complaint via YouTube,…
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Win the last badge today (April 4th)! Today our friends at the Writers Guild Foundation are giving away the last remaining badge to the sold-out 2018 ScreenCraft Writers Summit which…
Spoiler-ridden movie trailers suck, but there’s something amazing that screenwriters can take away from them. We all hate those terrible movie trailers that give away all of the major plot…
Is the F-word necessary in dialogue? What does it accomplish? When and where should screenwriters utilize it? We covered the idea of writing with speculative film ratings in mind within…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Donald Margulies is a veteran of the writing world. He adapted the screenplay for the 2015 film The End of the Tour and has written…
Writing for television is a much different beast compared to writing for film. It’s a different medium, a different audience, a different industry, with different rules, setbacks, and hurdles to…
Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is a career many aspiring writers can only dream of. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, authors and writers earned a median annual…
Can you learn screenwriting lessons in just six seconds? According to Hollywood screenwriter, producer, director and showrunner Brian Koppelman, you can. Koppelman is a successful screenwriter best known for writing Ocean’s…
Some rules we just have to live by in life. For screenwriters, one of the most tedious — yet important — directives is the screenplay page count. The general rule…
Meet Karin Gist. She’s a writer, producer and showrunner. Deadline recently announced her two-year pact with 20th Century Fox TV as executive producer and new showrunner on Fox’s music drama Star,…
