All posts by Ken Miyamoto
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First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to the notion... -
First Draft: Put Audiences in Your Characters’ Shoes With These Seven Ways to Elicit Empathy in Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. How can screenwriters make audiences and readers... -
First Draft: Ten Ways Screenwriters Can Sidestep Writing for Free
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “You have to pay your dues, right?”... -
First Draft: Screenwriting Contests and Fellowships Every Writer Should Target in 2018
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What are the best screenwriting contests, competitions,... -
First Draft: Here Are 20 of the Hottest Public Domain Properties For Screenwriters
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Hollywood has been obsessed with Intellectual Property... -
First Draft: What’s It Like to See Your Script Produced By Hollywood? Here’s How This Screenwriter Made It Happen
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Seeing your screenplay produced is the ultimate... -
First Draft: 14 Screenwriting Books Every Screenwriter Should Read
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What are the best screenwriting books on... -
First Draft: Wield These Tips To Conceive, Write, and Format Your Feature-Length Musical
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. You have a great story, great characters,... -
First Draft: Think Outside the Box With These Five Resourceful Screenwriting Career Moves
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What if we told you that there... -
First Draft: Manipulate Your Audiences’ Psychological States With These Three Screenwriting Tricks
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Suspense is everywhere in film. It drives...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8