Hello, everyone. As you all know, my purpose is to bring you valuable insights you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  Why?  Because there isn’t time to go into great detail on certain topics when there’s so much to cover in just the basics. We’ve been talking about […]

Hello, screenwriters.  After a one week hiatus we’re back to the topic we were pursuing:  writing great dialogue. Here is a great example from The Matrix, where Neo meets The Oracle to see if he is the One.  She’s baking cookies as they talk:   ORACLE: I know. You’re Neo. Be right with you. NEO: […]

Hello, everyone. You know my mantra – I do everything possible to provide information you wouldn’t normally get in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting workshop, or screenwriting class.  So, here we go again — Now that we’re focusing on writing great dialogue I hope you all have you personal antennas on alert as to what […]

Hello, everyone. As you’re all aware, my sole mission with these posts is to provide information you wouldn’t normally receive in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting workshop, or screenwriting course.  This certainly fits that fill. We begin a new topic today, writing great dialogue. It’s apropos as we start the fall season with renewed energy […]

Hello, screenwriters.  Let’s talk turkey this week-end and explore how a screenplay actually gets made. The truth of the matter is it’s a lot easier to say no to a project than to say yes.  The people who make these decisions are always worried about one thing – losing their jobs and making unprofitable movies.  […]

Hello, screenwriters.  You may have taken a screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  In those venues you hopefully learned the basics.  But what I try to do in these posts is provide information you could only learn from someone who’s toiled in the trenches for many years.  This certainly fits that bill. As we […]

Hello, screenwriters.  As you’re well aware, these posts are designed to offer insights that you normally don’t hear in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting workshop or screenwriting class.  This post is certainly in that same vein. As you know I’ve been writing screenplays for a good while and have also taught screenwriting in my professional […]

Hello, screenwriters.  As you’re well aware, I do everything possible to tackle issues not normally covered in your typical screenwriting workshop, screenwriting class or screenwriting course.  This certainly fits that bill. So here goes – It might appear obvious but we all need someone we can tell our deepest, darkest secrets to.  And hopefully that’s […]

Hello, everyone. As you all know, what I mean to achieve in these posts is providing information you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting course, screenwriting class or screenwriting workshop.  So here we go again. Last week, I mentioned “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” as an inspired premise that did not deliver the […]

Hello again, screenwriters.  I promised you that I would provide seminal information you wouldn’t normally hear in your typical screenwriting class, screenwriting workshop and or screenwriting course.  I fulfill that promise in this post as well. It is a murderously hot day in Los Angeles therefore a good time to talk about movies – as […]