by Trevor Mayes | Jun 17, 2019 | Proofreading, Quick Quiz, Writing |
Riddle me this You know those puzzles where you’re shown a picture and told there are a bunch of things wrong with it? Well, this is the screenwriting version of that puzzle, and you get to play detective! In the following short scene, there are a number of...
by Trevor Mayes | Jun 11, 2019 | Writing |
Yes, they do. Very much. For about 25% of you, this may be the most important article you’ll read this week. Writers tend to break down into four types: Those who are fastidious about their writing and take great pains to make sure everything is written...
by Trevor Mayes | Jun 3, 2019 | Action Lines, Writing |
What do we see and hear? Fundamentally, your job as a screenwriter is to convey to the reader what they should be seeing and hearing, without bogging them down with unnecessary details. Sometimes the desire for efficiency, however, causes screenwriters to become too...
by Trevor Mayes | May 22, 2019 | Punctuation, Writing |
Direct Address When it comes to proofreading, there’s one mistake I encounter more than any other — the failure to use a comma with a direct address. What’s a direct address? A direct address occurs exclusively in dialogue when a character is speaking to someone and...
by Trevor Mayes | May 7, 2019 | Formatting, Modern Craft, Writing |
What’s a naked slugline? Actually, even before that — what’s a slugline? A slugline is just another word for a scene heading. A naked slugline is a scene heading that has no action line(s) after it. It just sits there, exposed… then goes...
