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thoughts on screenwriting from writer-producer erik bork
Dealing with Feedback
At all levels and at all points in the process of screenwriting, there are "notes" from others. Whether it's you first screenplay that you...
“Premise pilot”
"Premise pilots," in my experience, are not seen as a good thing. But the definition of a "premise pilot" seems to move around a bit, depending on...
Sellable Screenplay Concepts
My March 12 webinar on "Creating a Sellable Screenplay Concept" is now available from The Writers Store. In it, I analyzed the loglines of some spec...
Award Season Genres
SCRIPT MAGAZINE has published my online article where I break down the SAVE THE CAT "genres", as I see them, of most of the big movies vying for...
Serialized Storytelling
I eventually watched HBO’s THE WIRE, over a decade after its five-year run began. Once I started, I found myself binge-watching through the first...
People We Care About
What most interests me about Downton Abbey is how it so masterfully demonstrates two qualities that I am obsessed with, when it comes to good...
All-time best written series
I couldn't resist creating a chart that breaks down the recent WGA member-voted "Best written series of all time" by decade and type of show. What...
Specs that sold in 2012
SCRIPT Magazine has published my article analyzing the common elements of screenplays that sold in 2012. One of the key things that I noticed was...
Finding the right genre
Blake Snyder's ten "genres" and fifty "subgenres" in his Save the Cat books are my single favorite tool for screenwriters. I have long believed...
The Two Types of TV Stories
Script Magazine has published my new article delineating the two types of stories on television -- "procedural" and "personal" -- which are easy for...
Loglines don’t tease
Loglines describe a movie (or series) idea in a quick sentence or two that provide enough of an idea of what it’s about to (hopefully) seem like a...
Spec Scout
A cool website called "Spec Scout" tracks the status of currently unproduced screenplays in the Hollywood marketplace, in a variety of categories....
