What the &$*# Is the Right Screenplay Title Page Format?
It should be obvious, the right screenplay title page format. ("You put in your title...and your name!") But there is a subtle set of industry expectations when it comes to creating your screenplay title page. And missing out on any of the key...
What’s the Best Screenwriting Software if Yer Totally Broke?
Even 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....
5 Places to Read Screenplays (Without Spending a Dime)
Most 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 screenplays...
How to Write Emotional Screenplay Scenes That Don’t Suck
In this edition of Screenwriting 101, we talk about how to write emotional screenplay scenes that are...well...not sucky & boring. There's an old adage in the theatre they give new — and not-so-new actors — and that is "Feel the emotion 120%;...
Top 5 Aaron Sorkin Screenwriting Tips From His Reddit AMA
The Internet has many interesting, strange rabbit holes. And Reddit -- the user-curated social network -- is just one of them. Reddit, in case you're not familiar, is like the Star Wars cantina -- only scarier. (There weren't many Russian spambots...
How Script Analysis Actually (Frickin’) Works
There may be no more confusing concept in screenwriting – aside from why people keep giving Adam Sandler the chance to make movies – then that of script analysis. Does script analysis relate to close study of a screenplay by a screenwriter to...