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As a screenwriter, you may use other script consultants to critique your material, but inevitably you'll need to master the ability to analyze your own work. This can be a difficult task, somewhat akin to trying to look at your own face (without a mirror). If you are Read More
WHAT IS A TREATMENT, AND HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM A SYNOPSIS?
Often, in selling an idea to Hollywood, circumstances require that you write a "treatment" -- an engaging synopsis of your idea or story. The difference is Read More
It may be a cliché, but it's nonetheless true, that the mother of invention is necessity. Tight parameters sharpen the creative process and the most fundamental parameter of all Read More
I am going to sell a high-concept spec for a million dollars next year.
I am going to be a staff writer next year.
I am going to win the Nicholl Fellowship next year.
We've all had thoughts like these, right? Read More
In one or two sentences, a screenwriter must create a screenplay logline that sells the story, because it will be the first thing read by a producer. Read More
Over the years, I've read thousands of scripts as a producer and former VP Development for companies at Sony, Universal and Disney and had to separate the wheat from the chaff. Read More
The night before the heist - Gathered around a TV, four young men quickly go over the plan. Talkative smartass ALFIE HAWKS leads the group: immature and giggly BILLY LANG, Read More
Writing for the film medium has become the modern version of the ancient art of storytelling. Unlike the novelist, the screenwriter cannot rely exclusively upon the written word, for the written word must be the screen’s spoken words Read More
If you're like me, from your genesis as a screenwriter, from the very first screenwriting book you read, you were exposed to three-act structure - or from Read More
A screenplay consists of seven basic elements. Read More
