Story & Structure
The craft of telling a story starts with structure skills.
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How To Pitch
You've spent years writing your script. You've outlined it, you wrote it, you rewrote it, you turned it in for feedback,…
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Evolution/Revolution
In all my screenwriting courses and workshops around the world, I’ve read thousands and thousands of screenplays. Exactly how many,…
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Thinking Like A Screenwriting Pro
Browsing the menu of existing articles on screenwriting to see what had already been served up, I found to my great…
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Morally Murky
The morals we hold are what shape us as people. They are behind every decision we make and how we…
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[Video]: William Nicholson’s ‘Screenwriting is Hell’
The screenwriter who adapted the upcoming Oscar nominee favourite Les Miserables William Nicholson gives a richly voiced seminar on the…
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The Value of Interesting Support Characters
In this last essay on critiquing Australian feature film stories, I will focus on the need to make the supporting…