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Continuing this week's series of tips - specific aspects of craft and creativity I've found in spec scripts
that sell, based on my years of reading screenplays and doing notes on
studio projects... Tip #4: Scripts that sell speak to universal subjects in a distinctive voice. One ...
Comedy
We're midway through a week of "tips" - specific aspects of craft and creativity I've found in spec scripts that sell, based on my years of reading screenplays and doing notes on studio projects. This one may inspire rolling eyeballs and groans, but bear with me, and I'll ...
Comedy
This week Living RomCom departs from its
usual format to present five "million dollar screenplay tips" - aspects of craft and creativity found in spec scripts that sell: one tip a
day, Monday through Friday. These tips are based on my experience
working within the studio ...
Other
In my Writers' Program courses at UCLA Extension there's all kinds of personalities, skill-sets, and intentions, within the same class, but some pre-pro writers are more dedicated than others. So I've come up with a method to deal with latecomers. On the first night of a ...
Other
I had the great good fortune to have screenwriter/director Shane Black visit my Writing the Character-Driven Screenplay class this past week. The creator of the Lethal Weapon franchise, he also wrote The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and the by-now beloved cult fave Kiss ...
Drama
Shane Black
"We were in Japan in the wintertime, and we heard this... sound in the night. We were in Shimoda, which is this tiny little town on the coastline. And there was this calling, singing in the night..." Simone sings, a plaintive call in a low, sweetly lonely tone: " ...
Other
In the third season finale of Mad Men , Don Draper, the walking quintessence of ad-manology, has to pitch his formerly taken for granted creative exec Peggy on staying with him, and he tells her why he needs her: There are people out there who buy things, people like you and me. And ...
