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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 »
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...
“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 »
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...
“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 »
“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'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?...
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...
“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 »
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...
“Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
If you've worked on enough screenplays, you know how insane it can be to describe someone walking across a room for the umpeenth time. It can cross your eyes and make you feel like...
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...
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...
“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 »
If you're a developer who's ever thought about writing a screenplay, you'll love Fountain. It's like Markdown, but for screenplays. What is Fountain? Fountain is a plai...
“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 »
“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 »
“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 »
“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 »
We'll say up front that we know AI is a minefield. It feels like everyone is trying to use it and wants it to replace jobs, but there's a way to dig into these programs that can ma...
“You can make anything by writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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