Script Tips

Hollywood likes to put you in a box – the action writer, the biopic guy, the rom-com chick, etc. But…

Napoleon, Hitler, Cleopatra, Henry VIII, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and of course, there's always room for The Messiah. These are…

I've been with my wife for over a decade; we have three beautiful children and have worked hard to stay…

I've always said that a good story is about an interesting somebody, who wants something badly, and is having trouble…

When it comes to creating a character that truly stands out – one that jumps off the page and sticks…

Okay, so you've lost your muse. You don't want to be in your story anymore. You're stuck. And it's not…

I've talked a lot about the importance of writing for the audience; I've even gone so far as to say:…

When we talk about success, we tend to simply focus on the final achievement, the goal obtained, or the objective…

Recently, I was a guest speaker at a high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District somewhere in the…

Ernest Lehman, the six-time Oscar nominated screenwriter, is quite succinct in his broad stroke framework of screenplay structure: "In the…