Reading Time: 4 minutesMy old production company boss used to call useless screenplay characters, garden gnomes. Screenplay lawn furniture. The barnacle that prevented screenwriters from writing a movie that literally MOVED! Characters who would just float in a scene....
Reading Time: 3 minutes(Note: Mom’s feeling much better. Thanks everybody for the kind words!) Daytime television at the Palomar Medical Center in San Marcos, California isn’t very good. I know this because I have spent the past week and a half here,...
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen most screenwriters are knee-deep in the process of writing a script they usually spend a TON of time on things like dialogue and characters – but neglect that most important screenwriting element: writing a script with some killer and...
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this Screenwriting Hack on Dark Knight Rising you’ll learn: Why Dark Knight feels about seven hours long Why the arch-villain Bane totally blows as a villain Why the final showdown feels about as cinematic as an insurance seminar Warning:...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a problem every TV writer faces: which frickin’ TV show should you spec? And though I’m not hugely connected to the TV world, I do have a couple of buddies of mine who work on staff on some shows. (One of them in the UK.) In case you’re...