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“Usually it’s about hiding whatever you wrote. The first time through people tend to tell each other what the scene is about, and in life…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Whether you’re drafting your very first short screenplay or you’re a seasoned veteran with half a dozen features under your belt, the time will always come for feedback on your wri...
“The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I was working on this new screenplay and trying to get this beautiful monologue together, but after a few different drafts and passes....I would cut the whole thing down to a singl...
If you've ever sat through a script note session and thought, "I wish someone would just say what they mean," Scriptfella is your guy. In this excerpt from one of his free live cla...
People are always asking me what the "secret sauce" is for a great screenplay. If there was some condiment you would put on every spec to make it great, I would be slathering that...
“The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“When you are committed to the skeleton of a beginning, a middle and an end, the cleverness is in concealing the skeleton. This is a…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“A film is — or should be — more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“No matter what the concept is, no matter what spectacle you put out there, nobody cares if there’s not an empathetic way into the story…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
There is a moment every development executive knows. A script lands on your desk. Coverage tells you the plot. Genre tells you the surface. And somewhere in the read, you feel some...
“Write what makes you excited, and if it makes you excited, and you’re any good, it will excite somebody else. And if it doesn’t excite…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Very often my films are about the conflict between our ideas and our desires, and that’s where the drama is for me. We know how we’re…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“In my experience, audiences go to movies to feel. When the movie starts to break down and it becomes too mechanical or organized, instead…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“I think the best plot is no apparent plot. I like a slow start, the start gets under the audience’s skin and involves them so that they…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I cannot tell you how exhausting it is to sit and write a screenplay to try to get it to sound both good and like real life. See, real life is boring most of the time. But movies h...
Writing a script is really, really hard. You have to fit a dozen pieces together to create an experience that engages a reader and creates an emotional journey. And that can take m...
When you're deep in a screenplay draft, it's easy to obsess over dialogue and structure and forget entirely about how your scenes might be lit. That's a production concern, right?...
The Criterion Collection just dropped a 4K release of Body Heat, and with it comes a new interview with writer/director Lawrence Kasdan. And we always love learning from the greats...
I'm on a contained story kick right now. My creative partner and I are fresh off a short film shoot and want to make something else, but we want to make it as easy on ourselves as...
Writing a screenplay can be one of the most frustrating and gratifying things you can do. And guess what? Even when you become a pro, it doesn't really get any easier.I just read t...
“The first time I said no (as in ‘No, I will not do that to my script’), it was a liberating experience… ‘No’ is the single most important…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I’m celebrating the blog’s 18th birthday by shining a spotlight on some of the site’s many resources for screenwriters.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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