I love DVD’s. Home theater, surround-sound, waking up the neighbors. And the special features, how did we live without those?…
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Weddings are great. Funerals, even better! Talk about a cast of characters. Imagine: your uncle arrives at his own mother’s funeral…
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Big foot. Myth. Loch Ness. Lore. Writer’s Bock. Now that’s a whopper. The infamous excuse is just the industry standard…
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Choice – the act of selecting or making a decision – marks the difference between people. And how a person…
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A racecar driver doesn’t mess around; he can’t afford to go back and perfect every turn. Nobody cares about second…
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the smartest of them all? You are. That’s why you’re writing the script – I…
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Michael is a Professor of Media Arts and English, teaching beginning and advanced collegiate screenwriting as well as mentoring writers…
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“Wow!” I whispered as the credits began to roll. “Wow!” I said again as I dropped my IMAX 3-D glasses…
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I have only cried twice at the movies. The first time, I could have filled buckets, watered a greenhouse, even…
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The writer is the first director of the script. That is to say that the writer has already seen the…
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