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Outlining is a great tool for setting storytelling goals as well as helping keep your characters’ motivations and actions in focus.
Here are a few steps that will help you start outlining: Read More
I spent an excessive amount of time in film school—six years to be exact. I can tell you what I think are the two most important things that I learned after all that time: Read More
If you tell a friend you saw a movie last night and she’s never heard of it, her first questions will be “What’s it about†and “Who’s in it?†Read More
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From Little Red Riding Hood to Breaking Bad, the finest stories ever written have a moral argument at their roots. Understanding the morality in your story will help you... Read More
Why do most of your brilliant ideas happen while you're in the shower? Or when you're about to fall asleep? Or in your dreams...or while you're cooking...or while you're in class (or at the office) daydreaming? Read More
As a writer, if you haven’t first worked out what your story is really about on a fundamental level — what its DNA is before you start writing — you’re not in the best position to know what characters to come up with, what actions they take, what’s likely to happen in a scene, etc. in the first place. And this is where the Thematic Triangle of Conflict comes in. Let’s jump right in by taking a look at what it is and how best to employ it in your screenplay. Read More
The Good Wife...a Good Teaser
When an InkTip-approved producer starts to read your script, you’ve already piqued their interest with your dynamic logline and hooked them with your compelling synopsis and intriguing résumé, but now you need to reel them in with precise execution on the page, and that begins with a great opening sequence.
Nowhere is this as important as on television where every season a new batch of pilots contend for an audience. Read More
Scripted television is exploding. And if you are a screenwriter with experience primarily in the feature-length form, then you would do yourself well to start learning how to write a pilot. Read More
