The Chair Leg Thesis for Success in Creative Endeavours
What do you need to find success in creative endeavours? It’s the greatest puzzle and most asked question by people trying to break in to … Read more
Emmy 2019 Nominated Screenplays
The last year really has been a year of outstanding writing in what we still stubbornly insist on calling “TV”. I have favourites from every … Read more
The Rise of the Newsletter
They say all you need to be a writer, is to write. They say, if you write every day, you’re a writer. They say that … Read more
Story of A Script: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I’ve always loved the Indiana Jones movies. Raiders was an early favourite, Temple of Doom was the first screenplay I ever read, and I’ve always … Read more
Case Study: The Cost of Blogging
There are a great many great reasons to have your own website/blog, and a great many providers able to offer you a simple templated solution … Read more
Game of Thrones Screenplays
The adaptation of George R. R. Martin‘s fantasy epic by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss may not be without controversy, but there’s no denying … Read more
Screenplays of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Let me up front in saying, this list is incomplete, and will likely always remain so. Marvel may not have locked down their Phase 1 … Read more
Mobile Apps for Writers 2019
These days many writers rely on their mobile devices, their phones and tablets, rather than (or in addition to) more analogue stationary. Anything to get … Read more
The Problem With Twitter Threads
It’s about 18 months now since Twitter introduced Threads, a way of linking tweets together to form a coherent and conjoined narrative. Not so much … Read more
Story of a Script: Bird Box
Bird Box was written by Eric Heisserer, based on the book of the same title by Josh Malerman. While Eric’s previous adaptation, Arrival was a … Read more
Screenwriting Back to Basics
Some time back, Scott Myers of Go Into The Story posted up a series of articles on the fundamentals of script writing. They were useful but I … Read more
Gonzo Blogging
There was some discussion on Twitter the other day, about how a blog differed from a journal; that many blogs were in fact mere journals, … Read more
Dates for your diary – December 2018
Rather than re-publishing dates of contests, festivals, and opportunities every few months, I’ve instead gone for a big annual page for 2019. I’ll then use … Read more
Story of a Script: Arrival
Story of Your Life is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in … Read more
Screenwriting Opportunities and Contests September 2018
Planning out the year’s submission strategy for screenplays can be tough, there are so many of them, with dates scattered throughout the year. Time it … Read more