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Screenwriting Mistake #60: Forgetting that Cell Phones Exist 25 May 2013 | 11:31 pm
It's that time of year again when I've been reading a bunch of student screenplays and I'm encouraged by how good some of them have been. However, there's one issue that cropped up in several scripts ...
Django Unchained Analysis - Should it win Best Screenplay? 19 Feb 2013 | 07:51 am
Normal 0 0 1 2284 13019 108 26 15988 11.1539 Normal 0 0 0 Django Unchained By Quentin Tarantino General Information · Genre – Western · Number of pages – 166 · Movie length – 165 mi...
Book Announcement! 5 Feb 2013 | 02:40 am
I'm happy to announce that I will be publishing a new screenwriting book soon called "Screenplay Suicide." This handy guide will list the most common ways that screenwriters shoot themselves in the fo...
Screenwriting Seminar - Sept. 29 8 Sep 2012 | 04:27 am
Normal 0 0 1 345 1970 16 3 2419 11.1539 0 0 0 Screenwriting Seminar Saturday, September 29 9:00 am - 12:30 pm — Structure Your Screenplay like the Pros 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm — 101 Most Com...
Screenwriting Mistake #59: "Sort of" 27 May 2012 | 08:57 am
I’ve heard hundreds, maybe thousands, of screenplay pitches and I can probably count on one hand the number of pitches that didn’t include the words “sort of, “kind of” or “basically.” For example, pe...
Screenwriting Mistake #58 - Sighing 23 May 2012 | 01:58 pm
There's no sighing in screenplays. That is all.
Screenwriting Seminar May 19th 20 Apr 2012 | 04:24 am
Please note that the date for this event has changed to MAY 19th! I'm happy to announce my next Screenwriting Seminar on Saturday, May 19th. This will be a 9-5 class giving you everything you need to...
Screenwriting Mistake #57: Bad first ten pages 19 Apr 2012 | 07:34 pm
Everyone who has studied even a little bit of screenwriting has probably heard many times that you need to grab the reader within the first ten pages of your script. While that is true, it’s about the...
Screenwriting Mistake #56: Not owning the rights 11 Mar 2012 | 08:23 am
Normal 0 0 1 557 3176 26 6 3900 11.1539 0 0 0 Here’s a simple tip for you: don’t adapt a screenplay from an existing story without first acquiring the legal right to do so. This could mea...
Screenwriting Mistake #55: Disappearing characters 20 Feb 2012 | 09:46 am
Normal 0 0 1 194 1108 9 2 1360 11.1539 0 0 0 Sometimes when I'm reading a script I'll get to around page 70 and come across a sentence like, “Tom arrives at the shop and goes inside.” The...
