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When I look at a logline for a screenplay, I'm often wanting more information on what the main character will be doing in the second and third act...

As screenwriters, we're often getting "notes" from others about things that aren't working in our script, at least in the opinion of those giving...

After many rounds of notes on the same script, one of my consulting clients once remarked that perfecting a script is really like a Rubik’s cube. He wasn’t wrong.

What's in your script should just be the very tip of the iceberg of what you know about your characters and situations. I think I first got this...

Because of my experience working on Band of Brothers, writers often come to me for my opinion on war-related scripts and projects. I'm talking...

In the past I've blogged a lot about first acts - their beginnings, middles and ends, and about how second acts start, evolve, and end in a crisis....

Loglines are important not just because the industry requires them. They are perhaps the best way to look at whether your idea has the necessary elements to be a really strong story.

Writing is rewriting. How many times have we heard that? We get it: the first draft is probably far from the best, finished version.

When writing dialogue, it's easy to fall into the trap of "information exchange" scenes. This is when characters give each other information,...

Because of my work on Band of Brothers and other projects that involved adapting true stories, writers in my IDEA course or consulting clients often...

I find framing devices to be overused in the scripts that I read. More often than not, one of my first notes to a writer is that their opening scene...