First Draft: A Screenwriting Prescription For Action Description
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. A script’s first audience is not the same as a...
First Draft: Break Tired Screenwriting Conventions By Embracing the Heroine’s – Not Hero’s – Journey
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Katniss. Moana. Rey. Jyn. Wonder Woman. The age of the...
First Draft: Will You Give Your Audience a Guided Tour of Your Script’s World, Or Throw Them In Head First?
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Who doesn’t love creating a world from scratch? So many...
First Draft: Grab Viewers By the Eyeballs With Your Screenplay Title
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. One of the most underrated aspects of a screenwriter’s arsenal...
First Draft: Five Ways to Craft the Midpoint of Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Great writing is a balancing act of interwoven, unifying elements. That...
First Draft: Cover Your (Screenwriting) Ass With These Rules For Writing Valuable Script Coverage
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Screenplays don’t exist in a bubble. They’re fated to be...
First Draft: Seeing Is Conceiving. Build a Blueprint to Work Visuals Into Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Writing visually is something a lot of screenwriters try to do,...
First Draft: So You’ve Accepted a Script Assignment. Here Are Seven Ways to Rise to Its Challenges
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Collaboration is often difficult for screenwriters. Unless you’re part of...
First Draft: Rewrites Aren’t the Only Way to Improve Your Screenplay. Try Rearranging It Instead
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. We’ve all been there before. We’ve labored through draft after...
First Draft: Allow Your Characters to Introduce Themselves With These Seven Ways to Reveal Their Names
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The go-to screenwriting topics of discussion for any given day...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...