Michael Schilf

Filmmaking on paper – that's screenwriting. And as the writer, you're the first director, the first cinematographer, the first set…

It's so simple, yet so hard. If you want to do something, be somebody, or go somewhere, most likely the…

As a parent of three children, I have learned that it is in the ability to make the hardest decisions…

As a screenwriter, you're constantly making decisions: from the foundations of character, story, and structure down to the littlest of…

Screenwriting uses a lot of very specific terminology: inciting incident, lock-in, obligatory scene, and planting & payoff... to name a…

It was a Saturday night. The kids were asleep, and I heard my wife whisper, "Come to bed." It was…

It's true. Screenwriting – over all other forms of creative writing – is bound by rules: from format and structure…

I had just completed the Graduate Screenwriting Program at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I remember at the time still…

It was an August funeral. And that means hot and humid, with mosquitoes the size of basketballs. I flew into…

"Sometimes it's interesting to see just how bad bad writing can be." – Joe Gilles, when sitting down to read…