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Fleabag creator/writer and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge (pictured) has been quoted as saying, "Better to feel the pain of writing than the pain of not...

In this week's live session in my online community, we talked about the value of using older films as models for screenwriters looking to break in....

It's one of the first questions industry professionals will have on any piece of material: "Whose story is it?" What they mean by that is who we're...

The first page of a script is obviously important. Professional readers might not get much past it if it doesn't really work for them. So much of...

See that tiny sliver of overlap in the graphic above? It's not meant to depress you. But it does represent a reality of the film/TV industry: the...

I'm a fan of the Save the Cat books by the late Blake Snyder. I especially love the ten "genres" he came up with. I think these genres are a crucial...

If you're writing a series pilot you probably view it as an introduction to your series. A prologue. A first chapter. Where you set up all the...

In the weekly live session in our online community recently, I gave my thoughts and took questions about Netflix's hit Baby Reindeer.  It's been a...

I recently watched an interview with Friends co-creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman (I think it was here). In it, Crane commented on how they...

The movie that first made me think of "screenwriting" as a future career pursuit was The World According to Garp, adapted by Steve Tesich from the...

UPDATE  - September 10, 2024: The movie is now FINISHED! Just completed final color correction - the last step of post-production. We've changed the...

The happiest and most free I ever felt as a writer was with some of my earliest scripts. They were the work of a beginner and didn’t go anywhere but I enjoyed them.