flying wrestler
thoughts on screenwriting from writer-producer erik bork
White Lotus Season 2
I won't tell you what happens in the finale, if you haven't seen it yet. But you might want to stay off YouTube, Twitter and the internet in general...
The Crown Season 5
The Crown Season 5 debuted recently on Netflix. I watched the first two episodes and if I didn't know better, I'd say it has new writers who don't...
Scene Description
At its essence, a script consists of two things: dialogue and scene description (or “action”). The writer scripts what the characters say; and describes what they’re doing and what the audience would see…
Outlining a Script
Outlining a script involves figuring out what happens in every scene before you actually start writing any of them. We screenwriters tend to always...
30,000 feet
In focusing on the details, we often lose track of the “30,000 feet” view: the story or series as a whole, and its main impact on a potential audience.
Final Draft
No version of a script is the final draft.That’s how I recommend looking at it.Yes, I know the most popular script formatting software is called...
The Dropout
It’s rare that I admire the writing of something so much that I make verbal outbursts about it while watching, annoying the people around me. This...
I’m a Big Baby
If you’ve ever gotten candid feedback on a script from me or from other professionals, you might have gone through a variety of emotions afterwards…
Pick a Genre
When I look at a logline for a screenplay, I'm often wanting more information on what the main character will be doing in the second and third act...
Band-aid fixes
As screenwriters, we're often getting "notes" from others about things that aren't working in our script, at least in the opinion of those giving...
A Script is Like a Rubik’s Cube
After many rounds of notes on the same script, one of my consulting clients once remarked that perfecting a script is really like a Rubik’s cube. He wasn’t wrong.
Tip of the Iceberg
What's in your script should just be the very tip of the iceberg of what you know about your characters and situations. I think I first got this...