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What are your favorite movies based on true stories? They say that real life is stranger than fiction, so it only makes sense for screenwriters...
What are your favorite movies based on true stories? They say that real life is stranger than fiction, so it only makes sense for screenwriters...
Romance and comedy — the best combination since peanut butter and jelly. Ah, rom-coms. There’s just something about ‘em. But one of the most common...
To use voiceover… or not to use voiceover. That is the question. Voiceover is one of the most hotly debated topics in the screenwriting world, probably because...
Make this coming year be your most positive and productive yet with these screenwriting resolutions. It’s that time of year again. A time filled with...
Writers are notoriously tough to buy gifts for. Odds are, they already have the tool of their trade — a laptop — and you can’t...
Denis Villeneuve’s finished film and Eric Heisserer’s screenplay are fascinating to study on their own but to see how Arrival really became such a thought-provoking, captivating movie,...
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Unless you're writing subtext. Screenplays are made up of sluglines, action paragraphs, and dialogue. Given how simple...
Passive characters vs. active characters: which ones should you be writing? We are all the main characters of our own lives, it’s true. In real...
If writing is the difficult uphill slog and finishing your first draft is the victorious moment you reach the top of the summit, revising is...
Every writer has a toolbox. At least, that’s what Stephen King thinks. And I tend to believe him. As writers, there are certain tools we can...