If you want to lose weight, it’s no secret what you should do: eat right and exercise. Yet we want instant gratification: diet pills, liposuction, bariatric surgery. And sure, you might see an improvement, but staying at a healthy weight is a lifestyle: you live it, feel it, breathe it… every day! I know people who get up at 4:30AM to hit the gym before work, because strength and fitness are priorities for them. These are people with kids and careers, and the “I don’t have time” is never an excuse. Screenwriting is no different. It may seem daunting to pound out 120…

Screenplay by: Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, from the original novel by Peter Benchley In this examination of the opening pages of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws, screenwriters Benchley and Gottlieb do a masterful job delivering the 5 major rules within the first 10 script pages. In fact, they do it in 4. Note:The following analysis comes from the final draft of the script, not from the feature film. And even though some of these early scenes were omitted from the final cut of the film, they are still instrumental in establishing tone and…