Jul 25 Love4 6 Ways to Avoid Writing Dull Characters By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By: Britton Perelman The characters we create must breathe; they must be real. But creating life is no easy task.…Read More
Jul 24 Love6 Interview: Award-Winning Filmmaker Edson Oda on the Sundance Screenwriters Lab Experience By Jeff Legge Main, Screenwriting 101 Brazilian-born, LA-based filmmaker Edson Oda is no stranger to success. After beginning his career in advertising before moving on to pursue his own…Read More
Jul 22 Love9 Announcing Inaugural TSL Screenwriting Summit – Free to Register! By Staff Announcements, Blogs, Features, Screenwriting 101 The Script Lab team is excited to announce our first-ever Virtual Screenwriting Summit - and we're making it completely free…Read More
Jul 21 Love2 Screenwriting Instructors Pilar Alessandra and Michael Huage on Character Arc and the Hero’s Journey By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By: Andrew Schwartz On The Page is a weekly podcast hosted by Pilar Alessandra, a writing teacher and former story…Read More
Jul 20 Love1 Creative Differences 101: Lessons from the Firing of Phil Lord and Chris Miller By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By: Christopher Osterndorf It's common knowledge by now Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from the directing duties on the upcoming Stars…Read More
Jul 18 Love2 4 Reasons The Mummy Fails as a Launchpad For Universal’s “Dark Universe” By Valerie Kalfrin Main, Screenwriting 101 Whether you’re building one film or several with story threads and characters that intertwine, you need a solid foundation with…Read More
Jul 17 Love4 4 Concrete Ways to Craft Genuinely Likable Characters By Shaun Leonard Main, Screenwriting 101 It’s often argued that for a script to work, the main character or characters need to be likable. Now, there…Read More
Jul 13 Love6 The Secret to Creating Multidimensional Characters By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By Britton Perelman Characters must be three-dimensional. We hear this phrase all the time, yet there’s never a corresponding…Read More
Jul 12 Love2 Writing for Television: Lessons from Shonda Rhimes’ MasterClass By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By: Terri Emerson Shonda Rhimes never doubted that she could be successful at whatever she wanted to do with her life.…Read More
Jul 11 Love8 Ten Storytelling Secrets From David Mamet’s MasterClass By Valerie Kalfrin Main, Screenwriting 101 Listening to David Mamet teach dramatic writing is like hearing a raconteur spin tales and tell jokes with middle-class Chicago swagger and the…Read More