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UPDATE - March 21, 2025: Audiences are finally starting to see The Elephant in the Room. And it's going well! I wrote and directed this "red-blue...

In another post I raved about HBO's The White Lotus, Season 2. As of this writing, 4 out of 8 episodes of Season 3 have now aired. If you're...

Anora dominated the 2024 Academy Awards. Sean Baker won for original screenplay, directing and editing, as well as best picture. Leading actress...

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...

The most important question to ask about any character is "What do they want?" Ideally, each one has a desire that's important to them, but...

I always took weekends off.
Including from writing, which after all is “work,” right?

Chat-GPT-Logo by Johnlearningwiki is licensed with no changes made under CC-BY-SA-4.0I have a new best friend as a writer. And it's called ChatGPT....

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...