Reading Time: 3 minutesAre screenwriting contests worth entering for newbies? It’s a question I get quite often. Probably because new(ish) screenwriters don’t (usually) have vast reserves of money — unless their name ends in Reitman — and...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs they say, “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere…with a five-script deal and an office on the studio lot.” And while taking one of the many screenwriting classes in NYC isn’t a guarantee that you’ll...
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe all know the usual suspects when it comes to screenwriting books. Every would-be professional screenwriter has a crowded bookshelf littered with the likes of Robert McKee’s Story, Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat, Linda Seger’s...
Reading Time: 3 minutesEven the most raw and inexperienced of screenwriters will at some point want to know: what’s the best screenwriting software to help turn that zombie vampire sci-fi romance in my head into something tangible, and ultimately marketable....
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost would-be film and TV scribblers know it’s nearly impossible to boost your ability to write screenplays without an accompanying commitment to read screenplays. And this isn’t just about reading Tootsie and Dog Day Afternoon. Even...
Reading Time: 7 minutesForget film school, one of the best ways to boost your screenwriting game is to read classic movie scripts. (And mercilessly “steal/borrow” every technique they demonstrate.) But which classic movie scripts should you read? (And no...