Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s probably the #1 screenwriting question I get – aside from why do people STILL give M. Night Shyamalan movie to make movies… Do I have to live in Los Angeles to make it as a screenwriter? And so, in this video, I tackle...
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: < 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...
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 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...