Choosing a genre for your screenplay is an important decision that can heavily influence both your creative journey and career…
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If the idea of the Good Guy Turned Bad is arguably the most important theme in all storytelling (especially all Western storytelling),…
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The most successful films offer a cathartic experience for the audience. And that cathartic experience is usually the result of…
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R.E.M. sang it best. Everybody hurts sometimes. Everybody cries. Screenwriters are no exception. Even though scripts are meant to be…
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What makes a great film director? Is it, as Orson Welles suggested, just one really great film, or is it…
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What is it about baseball movies that tugs our heartstrings and makes us want to watch them over and over…
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Most writers, especially “plotters,” are familiar with the concept of writing an outline for their novel or screenplay. An outline is…
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Whether you call them road movies or quest movies or epic journeys, they exist in every genre, from sci-fi to…
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When you're trying to figure out what you are going to write next, you need to choose wisely. Concept is…
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Stories of the rich and powerful getting their comeuppance never truly get old, especially when those delivering the just desserts…
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