screenwriting

Inspiration from a Slaughterhouse

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Unmotivated. Lazy. Creatively constipated . Is this you? by Signe Olynyk After months of little progress, I tried this wondrous thing called the internet. I googled. Meat freezer. Slaughterhouse. Trapped in cooler. Words that I hoped would trigger some sort of creative anything. As I searched, I came across an abandoned, slaughterhouse near Edson, Alberta … Read more

Best of the Web 15 Dec

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Story & Structure :: Update: Award Season Screenplay Downloads :: How To Find Your Voice :: Screenplay Review – Cowboy Bebop :: “The Best Way to Have a Good Idea…” :: Amateur Friday – Echovault Script Perfection :: Catching Fire and Why Katniss Everdeen is a Too-Rare Heroine :: Likeable Characters – Call the Pound … Read more

[Video]: 12 Steps to Screenplay

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Need a splash of inspiration to start your screenplay? Struggling to generate a variety of loglines to select from? In the first of this 12-part series, The Bitter Script Reader steps in to show you how to pull the audience’s strings. Note: You might want to rewatch “Back to the Future” in preparation for this … Read more

[Video]: Paul Haggis on Awful Writing

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In an interview with Dialogue, Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) talks about humble beginnings in construction, working his way up through the ranks of the TV and theatre industries, finding the discipline to write – and admits that sometimes even bad writers can make very excellent livings in Hollywood. If you liked this, check … Read more