Story & Structure · 5 min

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, you rewrote it again. Now what?…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 30 Dec

Story & Structure :: Romance and ‘Love Actually’ Script Perfection :: TV Writer Podcast 063 – Bob DeRosa (Killers, White Collar) :: TV Writer Podcast 064…

Stuff · 1 min

[Video]: Pulitzer-winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire on Rise of the Guardians

Pulitzer-winning playwright and screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire talks about the genesis of his script for Rise of the Guardians, adapted from the children's series of the same…

Story & Structure · 9 min

Evolution/Revolution

In all my screenwriting courses and workshops around the world, I’ve read thousands and thousands of screenplays. Exactly how many, I really don’t know. I lost…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 23 Dec

Story & Structure :: Holidays and the Movies with ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ :: Download and Learn From Screenplays Competing For Oscars Attention :: Best Screenplay…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 22

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Uncategorized · 1 min

[Video]: Screenwriting Guru Syd Field on Hanging the Midpoint

The grandfather of screenwriting tutors and author Syd Field tells us what he learned from Sam Peckinpah: a strikingly simple strategy for tackling act two. If…

Story & Structure · 6 min

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 chagrin, that the really juicy appetizers,…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 16 Dec

Story & Structure :: Symbols and ‘The Matrix’ :: Is Back Story Important? :: Study Scripts! Armour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and more :: 'Django…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 20

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Pitching & Selling · 1 min

[Video]: Harlan Ellison on Writers Being Paid

An interview with Harlan Ellison, the screenwriter behind the classic sci fi films Terminator films and the Babylon 5 TV series, about one of the most…

Story & Structure · 5 min

Morally Murky

The morals we hold are what shape us as people. They are behind every decision we make and how we feel about ourselves. So I have…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 9 Dec

Story & Structure :: Can New Story Ideas Thrive? :: Analyses of 'Dexter' - S07E07 :: Break Into Act Two and Shrek Script Perfection :: Just…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 21

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Script Perfection · 1 min

Video: Sorkinisms

Do you sometimes feel like you're hearing the same lines over and over? You'd be surprised. Check out the compiled montage of Aaron Sorkin dialogue across…