Script Tips

Deadlines! There’s nothing better than a deadline to get a writer to kick some screenplay butt, and if you’re like…

So you finished your screenplay, and now it’s the agonizing process of waiting for feedback. Without feedback – unless you’re…

Years ago a good friend of mine did the unthinkable. He quit his well-paying marketing job that he hated to…

Okay, so your protagonist is a 17-year-old orphan and heroin addict living on the streets of Hollywood. She wants to…

There was a time when I wasn’t so sure a theme was necessary in writing a good screenplay. All you…

I live in Los Angeles, where being on time for a party is social suicide, yet my roots are from…

My uncle spent two years in a Texas penitentiary for stealing a cab with a butter knife, driving it to…

You’re an alumnus at a networking event when you see the nametag: Josiah Frazier. Great name. There’s a file for…

In 1999, I wrote a script titled Sausage. It was a comedy about a struggling gay opera singer who finally…

There’s a horrible misconception that writers are drunken, chain-smoking, free spirits who use a pharmacy of stimulants to maximize productivity…