You don’t need to go to film school and pay thousands of dollars for screenwriting classes. All you need to do is some reading. Let me tell you which books I found to be the most helpful...

If you’re a writer who wants to IMPROVE the QUALITY of your STORY, or a producer  who wants your FILM to have the best chance at the BOX OFFICE, here are 10 writing maxims that will MAXIMIZE your chances of SUCCESS --

 

What is a writer’s #1 CREATIVE TOOL? 

If you’re a screenwriter you better know what it is, because without it you won’t get past FADE IN: 

 

Much has been written about the subject of BE-DO-HAVE in the self-help arena. But applying it to screenwriting can be very helpful as well.

 

Theme is the most important element of any screenplay. It aligns and focuses the plot, subplots, characters and dialogue. It is the Rosetta stone which allows you to translate that great concept you have into a great screenplay. But that’s not all it does...

 Study for the Beethoven Frieze, Gustav Klimt

How detailed does a feature outline need to be? Gustav Klimt may give us a clue.

Every screenwriter is born with an amazing writing tool. It’s called the human mind. But if you don’t know how to use it effectively you could be wasting a lot of creative potential. I’ve found a special way to resolve creative story problems that I think you’ll find very useful...

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I’ve been writing for decades and have been steeped in screenplay writing techniques from McKee, Truby, Field, Vogler and others. But I just discovered a screenplay structure course that makes it easier, faster and more enjoyable to write much better screenplays. 

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There is no precise definition of what writer’s block is.

Most likely, it’s just the terror of staring at a blank page or screen and thinking that the next words that come out of your cranial matter have got to be Oscar quality.

Whatever it is, it’s really not that hard to handle.