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Reckless Creatives Podcast - Season 4 | Episode 7 - Sci-Fi Screenwriter and Writing Coach Jenna Avery: Mental ...

Pipeline Artists
.November 19, 2024

Sadie and Jeanne sit down with Screenwriter and Career Coach Jenna Avery for some writer therapy, including tips for productivity, pitching, and giving yourself grace.Sadie and Jeanne sit down with Screenwriter and Career Coach Jenna Avery for some writer therapy, including tips for productivity, pitching, and giving yourself gr...

Writing Mysteries & Thrillers That Sell

The Writers Store
.November 18, 2024

Learn how to add suspense to your screenplay, learn more about the genres, and master adding the perfect twist at the end of your work to keep your viewers wanting more! This Writing Mysteries & Thrillers That Sell bundle has been updated for 2024, to include everything you need to write mysteries and thrillers. Whether you're w...

The Phases of Character Development with ‘His Three Daughters’ Writer-Director Azazel Jacobs

Sadie Dean
.November 15, 2024

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs talks about tapping into his personal experience caregiving for his parents, how he developed these three distinct characters, the limitations and possibilities of shooting on film, and taking a chance on a third act that has sparked divisiveness with some viewers, but has ultimately resonated on a ...

Finding the Happy Medium in the Mockumentary Workplace Comedy with ‘St. Denis Medical’ Co-Creator and Showrunn...

Sadie Dean
.November 13, 2024

Eric Ledgin talks about his love for the workplace comedy mockumentary format, emphasizing the importance of making it feel real and authentic, developing complex and flawed characters, putting together his dream team writers’ room, and shares his guiding writing principles.A mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Orego...

UNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING: Four, Count’em Four, Movies With Flawed Endings. And a Good Book.

Tom Stempel
.November 12, 2024

The new movies with their slack hind-ins are 'His Three Daughters,' 'The Critic,' 'Lee,' and 'My Old Ass'. The book is 'Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV'.One That Goes Slightly Off the Rails at the End.His Three Daughters (2023. Written by Azazel Jacobs. 101 minutes) [L-R] Natasha Lyonne as Rachel, Elizabeth ...

Script Review – 'Anora'

Tim Schildberger
.November 11, 2024

'Anora' – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good as it could’ve been. [L-R] Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan and Mikey Madison as Ani in Anora (2024). Courtesy of NeonAnora – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good...

SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 528 - From the Army to Writer/Director of a Musical With Ryan Smith

Ashley Scott Meyers
.November 11, 2024

Host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ryan Smith about learning visual effects, the structure of writing a musical, and more. In this episode, our host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Ryan Smith. Our guest Ryan Smith is the Writer/Director of a new Zombie musical titled Eldritch USA.He talks about how he knew he...

INDIE SPOTLIGHT: Interview with 'Hippo' Director and Co-Writer Mark H. Rapaport

Sadie Dean
.November 08, 2024

Mark H. Rapaport talks about tapping into his adolescence to develop the heart of this film, his writing collaboration with co-writer and star Kimball Farley, and how they created their own guidelines as an anchor for the film, utilizing narration as a storytelling device, and more.HIPPO examines the coming-of-age of two step-si...

Calling All Writers – Send Us Your Questions!

Script Magazine
.November 07, 2024

Do you have Post-it notes and random pieces of scratch paper scribbled with writerly unknowns strewn across your desk? Send your questions our way.CanvaAs 2024 inches closer to 2025 (already?!), many of us writers entered this year feeling overwhelmed with unknowns, doubts, and questions about the state of our writing practice, ...

A Masterful Fugue of Dramatic Tension: Virgil Williams Discusses ‘The Piano Lesson’

Sonya Alexander
.November 06, 2024

Virgil Williams discusses breaking down August Wilson’s exceptional and intense play.Playwright August Wilson penned some of the most important creative works chronicling Black life during the 20th century. The Piano Lesson is the fourth in a series of ten plays dubbed “American Century Cycle” or ‘The Pittsburgh Cycle” because t...