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What is your story really about? I know it's about certain characters and plot events. But what's it examining, behind all that, which could...

SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals some elements of the plot of Barbie. Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie has a lot of wonderful elements. I think most can...

What do you do if your script comes in significantly longer than the guideline length for the medium you’re writing in? How do you approach the task of cutting pages?

Writers often come to me with projects that they think could be a movie or series (i.e. what used to be called television!). And they're not sure...

Save the Cat recommends giving your main character "Six Things that Need Fixing" in the first act. Then, by the end of the script, you show how...

Long before the Save the Cat "beat sheet" came along, screenplay structure theories going back to Syd Field talked about the importance of the...

The second act of a screenplay is that long middle section where the story's main character actively struggles to resolve whatever the primary story...

I won't tell you what happens in the finale, if you haven't seen it yet. But you might want to stay off YouTube, Twitter and the internet in general...

The Crown Season 5 debuted recently on Netflix. I watched the first two episodes and if I didn't know better, I'd say it has new writers who don't...

At its essence, a script consists of two things: dialogue and scene description (or “action”). The writer scripts what the characters say; and describes what they’re doing and what the audience would see…

Outlining a script involves figuring out what happens in every scene before you actually start writing any of them. We screenwriters tend to always...

In focusing on the details, we often lose track of the “30,000 feet” view: the story or series as a whole, and its main impact on a potential audience.