by Trevor Mayes | Nov 11, 2009 | Style |
Simple is Better I’m sure you already know that your scene descriptions should only be written in the present tense, right? Riiiiight? Okay good. But are you using the simple present tense or the progressive present tense? Whuh? That’s a fancy way of...
by Trevor Mayes | Nov 10, 2009 | Loglines, Movie Titles, My Experiences |
Earlier this year, Blake Snyder held a contest that asked people to take a well-known movie title and change just one letter to come up with a funny new concept and logline. A couple of examples: THE HEN COMMANDMENTS A meek Idaho chicken, on the verge of being...
by Trevor Mayes | Nov 9, 2009 | Characters, My Experiences |
In Respecting The Antagonist: Part 1, I covered the basics of the Antagonist and his function in a screenplay — as discussed in Bill Boyle’s speech at the Alameda Writer’s Group over the weekend. In Part 2 today, I’ll be paraphrasing the parts...
by Trevor Mayes | Nov 8, 2009 | Characters, My Experiences |
Today I went to the Alameda’s Writer’s Group’s monthly open meeting in Los Angeles, where I took in a great speech that Bill Boyle was giving called: “Respecting The Antagonist.” In this first half of a two-part article, I thought...
by Trevor Mayes | Nov 6, 2009 | Characters, Dialogue, Scenes, Style |
There’s an old adage in screenwriting — show, don’t tell. If there’s a key character trait, event, or setting that the audience needs to know about, provide that information visually. Why? Humans are visual — we learn things more quickly...
