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The Myth of Character vs. Plot
Spend enough time around screenwriters and you'll inevitably hear someone ask: "Is it character-driven or plot-driven?" It's one of those questions that's been repeated so often that many writers simply accept the premise. I don't. In fact, I'd argue that the...
New Service for Screenwriters: Script-To-Trailer
Bring Your Script to Life — Visually (Special offer for Scriptwrecked clients!) You’ve written a killer screenplay… but how do you get someone to see it? A query letter and logline? Boring. A query letter, logline and a link to a slick trailer for your script? Now...
High Concept: Cracking the Code of Screenwriting Success
High Concept? As we approach the end of another year, screenwriters everywhere start doing what we do best: dreaming up the next big script that'll make Hollywood sit up and take notice. And if there's one magical phrase that gets development executives' hearts racing...
New Script-To-Novella Service!
There's a new script service in town! Where have I been? What have I been up to? When not proofreading scripts or providing notes, I've been working with select clients to convert their scripts into novellas with the help of artificial intelligence! As anyone who's...
Should You Write For Free?
No Pay, No Gain At my first Pitch Fest many years ago, one particularly helpful production company rep, who sensed I was new to the game, gave me this advice: "Never work for free." As I was processing what he was saying, he reiterated: "No, seriously, never work for...
How To Indicate The Passage of Time In A Script
Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking... me off I've been seeing a lot of these kinds of shenanigans in the scripts I've been reading lately: Sarah watches the front door for a few minutes, anticipating Dan's return. A "few minutes"?! You actually want the audience...
Character Thoughts – “Unfilmables”?
What were they thinking? In novels we become spoiled, being able to peer into a character's mind to know what they are thinking. As a screenwriter, we don't have that luxury. We must only write what the audience can see or hear. Otherwise, they're known as...
How To Format Establishing Shots
Establishing When you just want to show a quick EXT. (exterior) shot of a building, before setting up the INT. (interior) shot, is it okay to use a scene heading without any scene description below? Yes! But -- you need to add ESTABLISHING after your scene heading....
ChatGPT for Screenwriters: A Game-Changing A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) Writing Assistant
We Are Living In The Future! As screenwriters, we're always looking for tools and ways to take our writing to the next level. Enter ChatGPT! ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI that uses machine learning to generate human-like text. It has been trained on...
Year-End Message
Goodbye, 2022! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Life Day or whatever the Flying Spaghetti Monster does, the year end is a wonderful time to reflect on all of our experiences and how they've shaped us as writers. It's crucial to keep in mind that our...
Scene Headings: SAME does not equal CONTINUOUS
I've been seeing this mistake a lot lately in the scripts I've been proofreading. The writer will use SAME when they mean CONTINUOUS. They are not the same thing and have very different uses. SAME TIME SAME (sometimes written as SAME TIME) means that the scene occurs...
Script Idea Or Execution: Revisited
Last year, I posted an article asking, "What's more important: script idea or execution?" My answer was that the script idea is more important. But for those of you who have been following my blog for years know, I'm not interested in any specific agenda other than to...