Embrace The Grind

Embrace The Grind

Anyone else out there a fan of MMA (mixed martial arts)? No? Doesn’t matter, this lesson applies to any professional endeavor — including screenwriting. So there’s this fighter named Benson Henderson. He’s got about as much genuine swagger as...
Three Dots vs. Two Dashes

Three Dots vs. Two Dashes

Whether I’m providing script notes or I’m proofreading scripts, I often find instances where the writer has used three dots (…) where she should have used two dashes (–), or vice versa. When used at the end of a sentence in scene description,...