by Trevor Mayes | May 3, 2023 | Action Lines, Style, Writing
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...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 9, 2019 | Action Lines, Modern Craft, Pet Peeves, Proofreading, Writing
Week 3 This is a good one. And by good one, I mean a mistake I see all the time that drives me crazy. There’s mistakes See anything wrong with the above subheading? It should be: “There are mistakes,” right? You wouldn’t say, “There is...
by Trevor Mayes | Sep 2, 2019 | Action Lines, Dialogue, Modern Craft, Writing
Barking up the wrong tree Sometimes, it’s the easy things that can trip you up in a script. Take yelling and screaming, for instance. Seems like it would be an easy thing to indicate, but there are some common problems I’m seeing in scripts that are...
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...
