Screenwriting 101

Plot and character-related exposition in screenplays is unavoidable. Your audience needs certain, essential nuggets of information as they embark on…

When I decided to make my latest film, The Seen (2016), I took a series of unusual approaches. The first…

Now is the perfect time to achieve your creative goals, like writing the screenplay for that thriller in your head…

The act of writing is often seen as a mere hobby or, when pursued as a professional career, as a…

I.A.L. Diamond was Billy Wilder’s second great co-writer. After Charles Brackett, with whom Wilder had co-written The Lost Weekend and…

To learn how to become a screenwriter, you need to do more than read screenwriting books. You need to do more…

Don’t underestimate the commitment it will take to realize your story and write a book. Boil your project down to…

Stage to Screen: Decisions, Decisions when Adapting  Stage and screen are both visual medium with different setups and dimensions.  Theater…

When it’s time to start writing a book, I can’t just put pen to paper and begin. I’m like a…

Writing is rewriting. Screenwriters have heard this phrase so many times it's like a permanent Post-It note taped inside the…