Best of the Web 6 Oct

Story & Structure :: How Screenwriting Style Changed Movies :: Struggling to Conquer the Dreaded Act Two? :: 3 Ways To Write Characters That Your Mom Can Be Proud :: Screenplay Review – Bait :: Screenplay Review – Robocop (2014) :: Amateur Friday – Vostok Script Perfection :: What We’ve Learned So Far :: What … Read more

Best of the Web 7 Jul

Story & Structure :: The Origins and Formatting of Modern Screenplays :: 30 Days of Screenplays, Day 30: “Michael Clayton” :: Man of Steel Story Map Screenplay Analysis and Podcast :: Scene Of The Week: ‘The Godfather’ :: High Concept Hilarity :: Sequences and ‘Toy Story’ :: Fridays With Hitchcock :: Great Character: Erin Brockovich … Read more

Best of the Web 17 Feb

Story & Structure :: How Screenwriters Find Their Voice :: Scene Questionnaire to Help With Your Re-write or Pre-write :: TV Writers Podcast Ep 70 – The Emotional Thesaurus :: Scriptnotes Podcast Ep 75 – Villians :: Screenwriting the Dan O’Bannon Way :: Three Ways Alt-Script Writing Can Improve Your Spec Scripts Script Perfection :: … Read more

Script not getting read? We know why …

I am a literary manager, which is much like an agent. My job is to read screenplays, mostly by my clients, who are experienced and produced writers of both film and television, and help develop them to the best of our ability to get sold and made. by Jenny Frankfurt For some of course, this is … Read more

Screenwriting: from Fail to Sale (3/5)

Two years back a friend said to me, why don’t you enter some of your scripts into scripts comps. Phooey, I thought, (yes I thought Phooey – great word huh, so under used.) -By Samuel Bartlett PART THREE – THE TRUTH ABOUT COMPS I conjured images of those competitions you find in supermarkets where all … Read more