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30 reasons why a journey into the vault of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's vault gives film school a run…
Screenwriters don't have to work their way up an imaginary totem pole to earn the right to be paid. Here…
Though they're often overlooked, these five pieces of successful screenplays—some big, some small—have always been found in the best scripts…
Screenwriting contests have become the ultimate way to penetrate those thick studio walls. Here are some of the standout competitions…
After making a documentary for the last four and a half years, the director of From the Ground Up has…
As we look ahead to this new year, now’s a good time to ask: What are your screenwriting goals? Here…
Unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars for the rights to best-sellers and pop culture hits, you’re stuck in…
A screenwriter's final summit is seeing a studio produce your screenplay with a name cast. It doesn’t happen often, but…
24 Hours to Live director Brian Smrz breaks down how he harnessed his experience as an action coordinator to pull…
This list of screenwriting books is not about finding the one way to write your script—it’s about a collection of…
Here are five ways to enhance your out-of-the-box thinking as it applies to your hopes and dreams of a successful…
Here we showcase seven ways in which you can determine if your characters aren’t unique—and how you can find methods…
Here we offer 101 originally conceived horror story prompts that you can use as nightmare fuel for your next scary…
By tapping into these screenplay structures, you can hack into the psychological states that stir surprise, suspense, and curiosity within…
One key to unlocking the mysteries of writing great dialogue is lack of dialogue. Actions can speak louder than words,…
On-screen writing credits can be confusing for those yet to be involved in the negotiation and contract goings-on in Hollywood.…
Not understanding your film's rules, lack of cinematic literacy, being too cool for school or too complex: Which of these…
“It’s who you know,” they say. You’ll find with these three networking maps that you can and will know more…
When unleashed properly, the unreliable narrator is one of the most effective devices in storytelling. But how do unsuccessful films…
Based on Dungeons & Dragons, the Five-Room Dungeon Model is designed to plot out your screenplay's most important twists and…
Does your antagonist tie in thematically with your protagonist's arc? Your answer to that, and three more questions, will help…
Use this list of stock characters to create the inhabitants of your scripts' worlds, or as red flags for when…
Story structure guidelines can seem like killers of originality. The key, though, isn't the decision to use or not use…
This video points out how Charlie Kaufman articulated the unrealistic expectations that Hollywood creates, and offers guidelines on how to…