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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...
Screenwriting is incredibly hard. I am sure you know that, but there are times it's worth acknowledging so you don't go crazy. But really, what you're doing is both telling a story...
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“If something funny or scary or interesting happens to me, the first thing I think is, ‘Can I turn that into a script?’Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
What do Katy Perry, Charles Dickens, and the Bible have in common?According to writer Mark Forsyth, they're all leaning on the same handful of ancient formulas or patterns of langu...
Wade Patterson is a cinematographer, writer, and producer who recently shared his experience making shorts and features with Film Courage. His projects include Death Cipher and the...
START WITH CHARACTERS: “The plot is just the vehicle by which the characters are revealed. You create a bunch of characters and let them…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
It's funny, when I run into problems with my screenplays in terms of how to write a scene or how to make it engaging, I often turn to the movies I think did it best and seek out th...
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...
“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: “Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Something has to happen in every scene.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Tucker Berke is a screenwriter and coach who likes to keep the advice simple and straightforward. Rather than focusing on the big, standard tips like the importance of three-act st...
“There’s a great story I heard the other day that I’ll rip off. I guess it’s a classic Japanese story about a tea ceremony expert who got…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?...
“I think that much of good screenwriting is about carpentry.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I was talking to a friend earlier this week about revisions and how we approached them. He asked me what kind of notes I like to get as a writer, and I don't think I had a preferen...
Are you stuck without an idea? Do you need a shake-out of your comfort zone and some help coming up with your next screenplay? We got you covered. I wanted to assemble some genre m...
I get it. When you finish a script, your likely next goal is to get it read. You’d probably prefer that someone who can do something with it read it. That means a producer, directo...
By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush If you’re looking for tips on how to craft the perfect red herring or outline your Act III climax… this isn’t that post. This one’s for the working wri...
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 »
“I don’t mind happy people at all. In fact, I like them. And I prefer to be happy as well. But dramatically, they’re usually not as…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Like your soul, you can mistreat your gift. That energy, if it’s not channeled in the proper respectful manner, will come out in…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“That faith if you put the bad, easy version of a scene on the page, the good version will come tomorrow. That’s writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Screenwriter, novelist, editor, professor, and New York Film Academy instructor Matt Harry has taken one of the longer roads to a working career in Hollywood. Everyone comes to the...
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