Jan 21 Love23 Character Questionnaire: 50 Things You Need to Know About Your Characters By Michael Schilf Creating Characters How well do you know your characters? Answer this character questionnaire to find out. Character development is hard, but you…Read More
Jan 21 Love8 Story Scenarios By Michael Schilf Development Imagine we put a carpenter out in a field with a hammer, some nails, and a bunch of wood. He…Read More
Jan 21 Love3 Character Development By Michael Schilf Creating Characters CHARACTER BIO: MAIN PROTAGONIST Objective: Dig deep with a character, discovering background history, personality, psychology, and current goals. Exercise: Write…Read More
Jan 21 Love8 Character Exercises By Michael Schilf Creating Characters You will create many different types of characters in order to flesh out your story. Obviously, the protagonist - hero…Read More
Jan 21 Love9 Scene Exercises By Michael Schilf The Scene You will use a lot of different types of scenes to accomplish very specific parts of your overall story. Sometimes the…Read More
Jan 19 Love5 Scene: Essential Elements By Michael Schilf The Scene We can analyze a scene and make sure we are including essential elements by asking a number of questions: 1.…Read More
Jan 19 Love5 Speeches and Monologues By Michael Schilf Dialogue Citizen Kane (1941) - Charles Foster Kane's speech to executives on the Inquirer’s success. Kane (Orson Welles): "Six years ago,…Read More
Jan 19 Love18 Types of Scenes By Michael Schilf The Scene The screenwriter uses lots of different kinds of scenes to accomplish very specific parts of the overall story. Sometimes the…Read More
Jan 15 Love1 Our Mission By Ched Rickman Our Mission Imagine. You spend the better part of a year slaving over your latest screenplay. You love the world and the…Read More
Jan 15 Love1 Rewriting By Michael Schilf Writing A few years ago, Richard Stayton, the editor in chief of Written By magazine, and I had a screening of…Read More