Story. Screenplay. Sale.
Joe Forrest looks at an important difference between characters. On the one hand there are those who change over the course of a story and then those who don’t change, but instead discover or reveal hidden traits deep within their personality. CHARACTERS WHO CHANGE Some films have characters who fundamentally change. They were bad, and the … Read more
“The Art of Plotting: Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to your Screenplay” by Linda J. Cowgill. Back Stage Books. New York, New York. 2008. 192 pages. ISBN-13: 978-58065-070-0 ISBN-10: 1-58065-070-8 Amazon: US $13.57 THE AUTHOR Linda Cowgill has written films for Paramount, Warner Brothers, Universal, MGM and several small independents. She also has television credits … Read more
The CEO’s of and Scripped.com and Zhura.com have just announced the merger of their companies in an email to their members. Both have provided online script formatting services for the past 2 and 3 years. Together they claim they will be the largest screenwriting community online. In the email to his members, Sunil Rajaraman (Scripped) writes: Effective Monday, … Read more
Apart from the odd tweet, I have been relatively quiet lately. Quietly brooding, listening and watching. But that little odd tweet now strikes back, in a 1,000 word blog post. And a call to writers to wake up and denounce the TV preachers. I know, I should be solving the technical issues that have been … Read more
I should clarify that this is from one of my TriggerStreet script reviews, and thus, it’s the top ten mistakes one specific writer made in his unproduced spec. (And this is not to embarrass him, either. He’s a good writer with a promising future.) But my biggest pet peeve in the world is a sloppy spec. … Read more