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Week in Review



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On ScriptMag.com this week, we share advice on networking, rewriting, logline tips and more! Check out our full list of contributors and follow them on Twitter too.

Now get reading and get writing!
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Order of Operations for Script Revision
Order of Operations isn't just for mathematics. Ray Morton created one for script revision as well – a way of prioritizing the elements of a screenplay from what he considers the most important to the least important. Read More...


How and Why to Pitch Agents at Pitching Events
Many writers are paralyzed at the prospect of pitching their stories, but Script’s editor, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, wants to push you past those fears with concrete tips on how to successfully pitch agents at pitching events. Read More...



Strategizing Your Way to Success in Hollywood
As the creator of the Hollywood Networking Breakfast® and career strategist to folk inside and outside of Hollywood, Sandra Lord offers some valuable face-time networking tips for success. Read More...


Writer Rob Tobin
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter Rob Tobin about his latest film, Get Married or Die, as well as his many years trying to break in, and how he eventually found success. Read More...


At the conclusion of this course you will have gone through the process of developing psychological backstories for your protagonist and supporting characters. You will also have created an environment in which your characters come to life as their personalities either mesh with their environment or thrive in spite of it. Enroll Now...

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Dialogue Subtext
Have you spoken out in your dialogue every intention and emotion? Don’t rob the characters of chances to find emotion in between the words. Paul Peditto examines some examples of dialogue subtext. Read More...


How to Get Your Screenplay Read Without Asking
Continuing the dialogue of getting a screenwriting mentor, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman shares how to get your screenplay read without asking. Read More...

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How Not to Write a Logline
Angela Bourassa, founder of LA Screenwriter and the Director of the LA Screenwriter Logline Competition, gives tips on how not to write a logline. Read More...


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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.

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The 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest



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The 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Contest is open for submissions and we're thrilled to announce this year's killer Hollywood jury!

As one of the most successful genres for launching careers, horror has stood the test of time as a playful genre for innovation and new talent to succeed within low budget limitations. This year's judges include producers, managers and writers at the top of their game in the horror genre, with films to their credit including A QUIET PLACE, DONNIE DARKO, INSIDIOUS, SAW, GET OUT, THE PURGE and many more.
Mark your calendar: the final deadline is June 29th, 2018.

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The 2018 judges include some of Hollywood's top horror movie producers:
  • Sean McKittrick, Film Producer at Darko Entertainment, and the producer of such films as DONNIE DARKO, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and Jordan Peele’s recent blockbuster GET OUT.
  • Ryan Turek, VP of Development at Blumhouse Productions (company credits include PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, INSIDIOUS, SINISTER, OCULUS, THE PURGE, THE GREEN INFERNO andAcademy-award nominee WHIPLASH). Turek is also the founder of popular horror website ShockTillYouDrop.com.
  • Kailey Marsh, Manager / Producer and CEO of Kailey Marsh Media as well as the creator of Bloodlist.com & BloodList, the highly anticipated annual list of best unproduced horror and dark genre screenplays in Hollywood. Kailey’s clients include multiple staffed writers & directors as well as clients writing projects for studios.
  • Andrew Wilson, Manager at Zero Gravity Management, the production and management production company behind dozens of genre films, as well as such top Hollywood talent as Katherine Heigl, Madison Iseman, Will Yun Lee, Maggie Grace, Dolph Lundgren, Kellan Lutz and many more.
  • Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Screenwriters of A QUIET PLACE, the surprise 2018 blockbuster (starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) that topped the box office two weekends in a row!
SUBMIT YOUR HORROR SCREENPLAY FOR CONSIDERATION HERE BY THE FINAL DEADLINE ON JUNE 29th.

As always, keep writing!

- Team ScreenCraft

P.S. We're also running the FIRST EVER Public Domain Screenplay Competition, open to feature film and TV pilot screenplays! Final deadline is July 10th.

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Pro Screenwriter Advice



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This week's screenwriting tip, veteran screenwriter Jeremy Leven (The Notebook) shows how to lay the groundwork for writing the reveal without giving it away or making the audience feel they are being toyed with.

If you’re writing a TV pilot, don't miss the The Hidden Patterns of the New Hit TV Hour Pilot Stories in 2018 webinar by Peter Russell on May 24th!


By Jeremy Levin
There is an apocryphal story, which, considering those involved, is most likely less apocryphal than assumed, about Jack Warner’s hiring Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond to write a screenplay for him. He sets them up in an office down the hall from his, complete with two sofas, two desks and two Royal typewriters, with enough paper and carbons to retype Moby Dick triple-spaced. But weeks go by, and Warner can’t help but notice that each time he passes their office, there is no clack-clackclack of the Royal portable coming from within. Finally, unable to take it any longer, Warner bursts into the office and finds Wilder stretched out on one sofa, Diamond across the room on the other, puffing on cigars, conversing congenially. “What the hell is going on here?” Warner asks, using words somewhat more colorful, one suspects. “We’re writing a movie,” Wilder responds calmly. “The rest is typing.”

As a screenwriter, this is the essential tale. Figuring out a compelling story, developing engaging characters from which the story emerges and determining the plot points and act breaks, the right tone and where the tension, humor and emotion is to be found is the primary (and most difficult) work.  Read More...

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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.

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This week's screenwriting tip is an invitation to the Big Apple to join me and award-winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger at the Writer’s Digest Conference this August in NYC. I promise, you will not regret the trip! I have always been a fan of the WDC and would love to see you there!

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By Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

If there is a writers' conference, I'm in. I swear, I get chills every time writers gather together to learn and network.

I am a conference junkie and have gone to countless events across the country, as both an attendee and speaker. However, there is none like the annual Writer's Digest Annual Conference in New York City. In fact, this was the very first conference I ever attended, back in 2007. The Pitch Slam event that year was also my very first pitch (I totally bombed...shhh). That conference experience energized me, and gave me the courage to hop on a plane three weeks later to pitch executives at a Los Angeles conference. All of the pitching I've done at pitching events prepared me for my later meetings with top executives at many studios and networks. Understandably, I have a special place in my heart for WDC and have gone as many years as I can.

With the upcoming merger of Script magazine and Writer's Digest, there is no better time for a screenwriter to attend WDC or for a novelist to learn screenwriting — pro screenwriters are writing novels, and book rights are selling to Hollywood before the novels are even completed. Writers are stepping out of their comfort zones and embracing all mediums! Why not you?

We're offering a pre-conference event tailored to novelists and new screenwriters on Thursday, August 9th from 9AM to 5PM, lead by award-winning screenwriter, Jacob Krueger. Even if you have a few scripts under your belt, going back to basics can provide tips to elevate your story. Jacob is a stellar instructor!

I'll also be there, teaching a Pitch Perfect class with debut novelist Tiffany D. Jackson, as well as Introduction to Screenwriting for anyone wanting to learn the "rules" of screenwriting, understand how Hollywood works, or dabble in adapting their books into scripts.

I'd love to see you there, stretching outside your comfort zone to bring your stories to a broader audience. My hope is that we'll all stop slapping single-medium labels on ourselves and simply start embracing that we are all writers. Period. On my business card, it reads, "Writer of things." Let's all learn some new things and ways to write!

See you in NYC!

Jeanne




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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.


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Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition



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Submit a Screenplay | Submit a TV Pilot

Now in its 16th year, the Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition seeks talented writers and exceptional screenplays to connect with production companies, agencies, and managers. As one of the longest-running screenwriting contests, Script Pipeline continues to cultivate relationships with the industry's top executives, focused specifically on finding writers representation, supporting diverse voices, championing marketable, unique storytelling, and pushing more original projects into production.
The 11th Script Pipeline TV Writing Competition is searching for extraordinary television writers and fresh, compelling pilots for exposure to production companies, agencies, and managers. Launched in 2008 as a response to the growing demand for new episodic content, the competition has established its role as a go-to outlet for emerging writers looking to get staffed on shows or develop their TV material.
The company's distinctive long-term facilitation process helps contest alumni find elite representation and gain crucial introductions to Hollywood, with $6 million in screenplays and pilots sold by competition finalists and "Recommend" writers since 2010 alone. Last year, close to 8,000 screenplays were entered in the Screenwriting and TV Writing Competitions, making Script Pipeline one of the leading companies reviewing unproduced material. Notable success stories can be found on the contest pages.
Finalists for both competitions receive immediate circulation to Script Pipeline partners, in addition to the following:
- $50,000 to winners
- Personal introductions to managers, producers, agents, directors, and others searching for new writers
- Development assistance with Script Pipeline execs
- Additional script reviews for potential circulation
- Long-term circulation for all finalists (and select semifinalists), tailored to each individual project
- Exclusive invitations to private writer/industry events hosted by Pipeline Media Group
- Henry Dunham's The Incident at Sparrow Creek Lumber wrapped production in April 2018 with an ensemble cast featuring James Badge Dale (Rubicon), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Happy Anderson (Mindhunter), Robert Armayo (Game of Thrones), and Gene Jones (The Hateful Eight). Dunham is making his feature directorial debut. The project, originally titled Militia, won the 2015 Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition, and Henry was connected with representation less than a month after contest results were announced, signing with Pipeline industry partner Madhouse Entertainment.
- The action-comedy Stuber, written by Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest winner Tripper Clancy, attached Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), and Iko Uwais (The Raid) . 20th Century Fox picked up the script, based on a pitch developed by Tripper and manager Jake Wagner (Good Fear), in April 2016.
Off the Menu, written by Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition finalist Jen Goldson, released in February 2018. Industry partner Jay Silverman (Girl on the Edge), who directed the romcom, picked up the project in 2015. Silverman and producer Bethany Cerrona met Goldson at the annual Script Pipeline writer/industry event in Los Angeles.
- Writers Burke Scurfield and Adam Lederer signed with manager Drew Shenfield at Mosaic in 2018. Their comedy pilot, Big Boy, was circulated by Script Pipeline to Mosaic execs after the script’s top 10 placement in the 2017 TV Writing Competition.

Submit a Screenplay | Submit a TV Pilot

*FILMMAKERS: visit Film Pipeline and submit a produced short or unproduced script. Launched in January 2018, it's a new platform to connect up-and-coming directors with agents and managers, as well as help get short films made. Learn more here.


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Week in Review



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On ScriptMag.com this week, I wanted to revisit a classic article on The Social Network. Seems fitting, given the Facebook fiasco in the news lately. We also have great tips on writing query letters, the history of inclusion riders and more! Check out our full list of contributors and follow them on Twitter too.

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The Truth About Facebook
Aaron Sorkin finds Rashômon at the heart of the world’s biggest Internet success story with his film The Social Network Read More...


Killer Query Letter
Barri Evins’ secret to solving the query letter conundrum: one sure-fire tool that can flip the script, ratchet up the heat, and turn the odds into your favor. Read More...


What to Include in an Inclusion Rider
Christopher Schiller sheds light on the history of the inclusion rider and how to avoid potential pitfalls that may arise when implementing one. Read More...


Time Management For Screenwriters
Not all writers can afford to spend their whole day in front of the computer, typing out their next great script. Learn effective time management techniques on how to plan ahead and make writing a fixed part of your life. Read More...


This genre is truly a writer’s medium: If you can present a new version of an old concept and scare us on the page, your script can sell. Plus, there is always room for innovation and creativity within the field. That’s why horror is a natural choice for many a screenwriter. Enroll Now...

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Screenwriter Steve Deering on Recently Optioned Screenplay
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter and script consultant, Steve Deering about his recently optioned screenplay. Steve also offers up some great tips to help screenwriters avoid some of the most common problems he sees as a consultant. Read More...


Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer, the NYT bestselling author behind Annihilation, Borne, Wonderbook and more, will present the closing keynote at the Writer's Digest Annual Conference. Read More...

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The Importance of Small Details in Fiction Writing
Small, concrete details are usually the difference between a story that works and a story that fails, between a good piece of fiction writing and a great piece of fiction writing. Read More...


How Not to Spec
Between contests and my usual work load, I have been reading a lot of spec scripts lately. In doing so, I noticed a number of things coming up over and over again that motivated me to formulate a little list of things that you probably shouldn’t do when writing a spec. Read More...


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Finding Your Writing Voice
Script Angel's Hayley McKenzie asks what is a unique writing voice and how do you find yours? Read More...


11 Tips To Boost Your Creativity
Every writer suffers writer's block at some point. Hayley McKenzie offers her top tips to overcome writer’s block, boost your creativity and generate more original story ideas. Read More...



Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.

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How to Consider Budget When Your Write



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Writing films are flights of fancy with no limitations. Producing require lots of logistics. It may seem dichotomous, but Christopher Schiller explains how budget and story can both be served.

If you’re curious about podcasting, don’t miss Podcasting 101: Creating Your First Podcast by Manny Fonseca on April 26th! If you can’t make the live event, a recording will be emailed to you.


By Chris Schiller
Writers write character. But characters with nothing to do are boring, and movies so written seldom get made. It’s all about story. Serve the story and you are off to the races. Or are you? Time and again writers come against the conundrum of a potential producer loving the story you tell, it’s just that there is no way they can raise the budget that would be needed to tell it. “Love the Jurassic Park story ideas, but, does it have to be dinosaurs? I hear they’re very expensive.”

This article pits the demands of telling a good, compelling story against the business demands of making the film producible within budgetary and time constraints. Writing films are flights of fancy with no limitations. Producing films are practical things with lots of logistics. It may seem dichotomous, but the two disparate viewpoints can be reconciled.  Read More...

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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.

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Film critic, filmmaker, and radio host Mike Sargent interviews award-winning writer Trey Ellis on his life-changing experiences of making the Martin Luther King HBO documentary, King in the Wilderness.

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By Mike Sargent
Trey Ellis is an American Book Award-winning novelist, Peabody-winning and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor of Screenwriting in the Graduate School of Film at Columbia University. His works have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His first play, Fly, was commissioned and performed at The Lincoln Center Institute, continues to play around the country, including the historic Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., the Pasadena Playhouse and the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street in New York City.

I had the opportunity to speak with Trey about the powerful new documentary King In The Wilderness which focuses on the last three years of Martin Luther King’s life.

Mike Sargent: As a writer and a storyteller, when did you first know you wanted to be a storyteller?

Trey Ellis: I always wanted to. I knew from a very young age, I didn’t want to have a boss, so I just knew that I wanted to write, tell stories. Also, when I was a kid, I remember in the fourth or fifth grade, I had this image of a novelist living on a boat in Nantucket typing on a manual typewriter, beautiful wife with a bikini who would bring him a martini. I didn’t know what a martini was, but I just thought that’s what a writer did, and that sounded like a good way to live. Read More...


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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.


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The Writing Process Behind A Quiet Place



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Filmmaker, radio host and film critic Mike Sargent interviews Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, screenwriters of A Quiet Place, opening in theaters tomorrow.

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By Mike Sargent
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are two screenwriters you may not have heard of yet but surely will very soon. Scott and Bryan first met as sixth-graders in their hometown of Bettendorf, Iowa. After discovering a shared interest in cinema, the duo began making stop-motion movies together with their Star Wars action figures. This collaboration continued into high school, where they directed numerous shorts and their first feature films.

As teenagers, Beck and Woods were shortlisted as two of the top 50 directors (out of 2,000 applicants) for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Project Greenlight series on Bravo. While still in college, Beck and Woods' work caught the eye of MTV Films, which offered the pair a feature film development deal. The duo went on to write and direct an original scripted pilot for MTV and executive producer David Gale (Election) and were later listed as "The Top 100 Writers on the Verge" by Tracking-Board.com. In 2001, Beck and Woods formed their production company banner Bluebox Films, under which they would write, direct and produce films, commercials, and television content.

I caught up with the busy writing team in New York city at the junket for their latest film A Quiet Place for Paramount Pictures. Set for release on Friday, April 6, 2018, A Quiet Place stars (real-life husband and wife) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, who also directed. Beck and Woods also serve as executive producers together with Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes banner producing. The screenplay was named one of the ten best scripts of the year by The Tracking Board 2017 Hit List.

A Quiet Place is billed as a horror film but it is more akin to a Twilight Zone episode (which we discuss during the interview) the premise is that Aliens landed and wiped out much of humanity and too late we discovered that though blind, they have a heightened sense of hearing and the only way to escape detection is to be very, very quiet. Those who have survived, have learned to live and communicate virtually without making a sound as the slightest decibel outburst will result in sudden vicious death.

The main story centers around a family of four who live in silence during the aftermath of the Alien invasion. Paramount Pictures describes the film, "In the modern horror thriller A Quiet Place, a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.” ...  Read More...

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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.

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Week in Review





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On ScriptMag.com this week, we explore the female characters of Charlie Kaufman’s films, give tips on getting past a writing slump and more! Check out our full list of contributors and follow them on Twitter too.

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PRODUCERS POV Charlie Kaufmans Women
Charlie Kaufman writes complicated, complex, proactive female roles for all ages. Heather Hale offers a brief spectrum of his female characters across his first six films. Read More...




In Writers Limbo
Are you in a writing slump? Lynn Dickinson teaches you how to Writer’s Limbo by setting writing goals that keep the bar low! Read More...


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20th Annual Scriptapalooza Screenplay & Shorts Competition

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Creating Your One Pager
Paula Landry gives tips on creating a one-pager, often called a "leave behind," allowing you to better share your screenplay pitch with executives. Read More...




Filmmaker Kimble Rendall
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Kimble Rendall about his latest action-adventure film, Guardians of the Tomb, starring Kelsey Grammer. Read More...




A collaborative medium, documentary writing requires research and an understanding of the audience’s expectations, and how the writer can keep an open mind when challenged by the unforeseen, including the exposing of surprising material and interview subjects’ unexpected responses. This course will examine and offer specific strategies for writing and planning a documentary. Enroll Now...

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Writing Action Movies
When writing an action movie, you need powerful action happening often... but how much juice is enough? William C. Martell gives insights into finding a balance between story and the "pow" of action. Read More...




Ready Player One
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has earned some harsh criticism. So how did it sell so well and earn so much attention, despite the polarizing reviews? Read More...


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Understanding Antagonists
The antagonist is arguably the most complex and fascinating character. Script analyst, Kayley Loveridge, explains how to create the perfect engaging and complex antagonist. Read More...




Essentials of Having a Strong Protagonist Plus Free Download
A story is only as strong as its protagonist. If your protagonist is weak and passive, your readers won’t care if s/he succeeds or fails. Knowing the definition of a protagonist is critical to fully understanding how to create a strong main character that will attract A-list actors. Begin on this page by exploring the definition and essentials of having a strong protagonist. Read More...




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Working with a Screenwriting Mentor
People assume working with a screenwriter mentor makes your job as a writer is easier. Wrong! Jeanne Veillette Bowerman sets the record straight Read More...






Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb.


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