Script Tips

It's so simple, yet so hard. If you want to do something, be somebody, or go somewhere, most likely the…

As a parent of three children, I have learned that it is in the ability to make the hardest decisions…

As a screenwriter, you're constantly making decisions: from the foundations of character, story, and structure down to the littlest of…

Screenwriting uses a lot of very specific terminology: inciting incident, lock-in, obligatory scene, and planting & payoff... to name a…

It was a Saturday night. The kids were asleep, and I heard my wife whisper, "Come to bed." It was…

It's true. Screenwriting – over all other forms of creative writing – is bound by rules: from format and structure…

I had just completed the Graduate Screenwriting Program at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I remember at the time still…

It was an August funeral. And that means hot and humid, with mosquitoes the size of basketballs. I flew into…

"Sometimes it's interesting to see just how bad bad writing can be." – Joe Gilles, when sitting down to read…

It's no secret. Talk to any fitness expert, read any research study, and the conclusion is always the same: exercise…