Reading Time: < 1 minuteI know what the how-to books say: writing screenplays without an outline is total insanity. Professional suicide. Artistic laziness. Except, for many of the pros, it ain’t all about index cards and outlines. It’s about starting...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHunger Games, the movie no studio thought could/should be made, is a smash hit. There are three reasons why no studio wanted to touch it: It had a female protagonist It was too violent; no way to make it a PG film It had a female protagonist...
Reading Time: 3 minutesSorry..but you can’t learn the skills of writing a movie script in six days, or six weeks or after a weekend seminar. (Even if the weekend seminar was really, really expensive.) Writing a movie script takes time and a lot of bad writing...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s an awful lot screenwriters can learn about the craft of screenwriting from watching the bloated, melodramatic behemoth that is the Academy Awards. (And it’s just not about guessing which best supporting actress will get too drunk before...
Reading Time: 3 minutesLet’s get one thing straight: as long as you’re writing a screenplay, you’re doing it right. There is no “wrong” way when it comes to writing scripts. If the words are being put to paper and the story is moving in a...