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Should You Use AI For Screenplay Feedback?

Lately, there is an increasing tendency for screenwriters and creative executives to use AI tools as a valid substitute for humans reading and obtaining insightful, actionable feedback on film and television scripts. Can a machine really capture the emotions and a screenwriter’s soul and intentions as well as a human being? Can ...
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Elevate Your Script With Theme (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Theme:TV ThemesNo, not the great music that introduces the shows, but the actual thematic overlays that follow entire runs of seasons.Billions speaks of greed and power. Axe has some memorable lines that illuminate this, “You Were Wrong. I’m not human. I am a machine. I’m a f****** termina...
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Elevate Your Script With Theme (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series ThemeIf you’re watching a film and your heart soars or breaks, you’re watching a great film written and executed properly. Chances are you’re also watching a film that has its theme(s) firmly in place. Nothing moves the needle quite as strongly as a universal theme that makes us an intimat...
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Writing Exposition To Make Your Script Pop (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Exposition:VoiceoverDespite being overused and used to shortcut actual writing voiceovers can be a powerful tool used properly. I ask my students to not use these, to work harder to get across their ideas, and invariably someone will bring up Casino or Goodfellows and my argument goes righ...
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Writing Exposition To Make Your Script Pop (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Exposition:Exposition is the beating heart of any story be it script, novel, song, article or poem. Building to a solid ending requires layering and delivering information in specific ways to make that ending work.But exposition isn’t just telling the audience something. It involves many a...
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What Makes Comedy Writing Funny? It’s More Than The Jokes

Writing successful comedy is serious business. Your jokes can live or die by the sword. Audiences are fickle. Comedy is neither inherently good nor bad – it’s only effective or not. The difference between a joke landing or falling flat depends on many factors such as the audience, the context, the way the joke is delivered, and ...
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3 Ways To Decide If Your Screenplay Is Ready To Show The World

This is the existential crisis facing many screenwriters. Should you write just one more draft? One more polish? Sleep on it? Or should you just hit the send button and let the script gods decide?If you wait, are you simply moving words around like a game of Wordle or really digging deep into your story to make it the best it ca...
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Ed Solomon on Screenwriting, ‘Full Circle,’ and his Blacklist Workshop ‘Word by Word’ (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Ed Solomon:Feeling CharactersIt’s difficult to describe the intangible need to choose one project over another, but Solomon says there are a number of ways to do so. “Sometimes I’ll feel a character. Sometimes I’ll feel a world. Or I might experience a human in an emotional state in one st...
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Ed Solomon on Screenwriting, ‘Full Circle,’ and his Blacklist Workshop ‘Word by Word’ (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Ed Solomon:“One of the only real skills that I seem to have cultivated in this business is patience,” jokes screenwriter Ed Solomon (Men In Black, Now You See Me 2). “Once you realize nothing is going to happen at the pace you thought it was, trying to rid yourself of this notion of time a...
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Mastering Conflict In Screenwriting

Conflict is something many writers understand intuitively. Or we think we do. This article isn’t about the craft of writing conflict, but rather the writer’s approach to it. It describes how the writer can leverage conflict to maximize audience engagement. Much of this article will no doubt be familiar to the experienced screenw...

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