Best of the Web 6 Apr

Story & Structure :: How To Write Characters That Bank Billions of Dollars :: Screenplay Review – Serena Script Perfection :: 9 Steps To Get Your Spec TV Pilot Written, Edited & Sent Out :: Writers Write :: Prepare, Prevent, Produce (aka Stop Working Like an Amateur) :: Save the Cat, Gender-Benders, and Writing From … Read more

Writing With a Partner

Writing partnerships are like marriages. They can continue in bliss or end up in bitter divorce. by Steve Kaire Working with a writing partner can either reduce your workload by half or create twice the headaches. Any kind of partnership is fraught with peril. If it fails, not only does the project come to an … Read more

When Your Scene Focuses on What Isn’t Happening

Here’s a little-known secret about stories: they’re about what your characters do. Okay, so maybe it’s not so little known. I mean, duh, right? Your character does something and then he does something else—and, presto, you have a plot! And yet writers often end up spending a huge chunk of time describing what their characters … Read more

Best of the Web 23 Mar

Story & Structure :: Great Scene: “Apocalypse Now” :: “The Good Wife” Creators On Adult Storytelling :: Russell T. Davies on Writing Action :: Great Character: Donnie Azoff (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) Script Perfection :: Ira Glass on the Creative Process :: Brooklyn Weaver on Building a Brand & Discovering New Voices :: Shut … Read more