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Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series What To Write:Based On Something Else3 Body Problem was based on an award-winning book series by Chinese sci-fi writer Cixin Liu. It took the science fiction market by storm and had a lot of people scrambling for the TV rights.Netflix won the most recent rights battle and released a succes...
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Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series What To Write:Perhaps the most important decision any writer makes is what to write. There’s a lot to consider including the market, trends, your strengths, etc. When I started my career I had in mind to create good sci-fi material. It was what I read and loved and I couldn’t think of anyt...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Logline:4) Triggering EventIn the logline, a triggering event describes the change in circumstances that creates the conflict to be resolved in the climax. Some call it the inciting incident or inciting event, others call it a catalyst. Whether a specific event, or the final straw in a seq...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Logline:Many aspiring writers battle with loglines. Quite a few working writers struggle, too. Afterall, it’s a different skill from writing a script. The good news is crafting a logline becomes much easier when the writer knows what to include and, more importantly, what to leave on the c...
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6 Popular Feature Films & TV Shows Which Began As Short Films

Short films are a valid form of storytelling that should be accepted and appreciated in their own right. They are self-contained stories generally told in under thirty minutes and aren’t a less valid art form. After all, a two hour film isn’t definitively twice as good as a one hour film – although it might be.Aside from being p...
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Moving Your Mindset From Aspiring To Professional Screenwriter

And so it goes… What you think, you become. Dream and become it. These might seem like an endless stream of feel good memes on your social media feed, but they do serve a useful purpose, especially if you seek a career in a business as fickle, unpredictable, and unstable as screenwriting.The first thing aspiring screenwriters mu...
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Short Stories Are Having A Moment. David Boxerbaum From Verve Talent Agency Explains

Hollywood is expanding its reach in terms of where it sources new material, particularly original stories that can be adapted into films and television shows. Producers have scoured through podcasts, magazine articles, and increasingly, short stories. David Boxerbaum, an agent at Verve Talent Agency, spoke with Creative Screenwr...
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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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Why Are Screenplays So Hard To Write? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Hard To Write:No one Likes To Read – AnythingWilliam Goldman’s seminal book, Adventures In The Screen Trade, still completely valid even forty years later, made famous the line, “Nobody knows anything” to describe the business of making movies. Today’s insane up and down box office is proo...

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