by Erik Bork | Oct 12, 2018
I’ve been making the rounds of the screenwriting podcasts, blogs and other venues lately, talking about my new book THE IDEA: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage, or Fiction — which I’m proud to announce has become a #1 bestseller...
by Erik Bork | Sep 19, 2015
Somehow an article I wrote for Script Magazine a while back never got added to my own website — and it’s about an important topic that I teach TV writers about all the time: the two different kinds of TV stories, and why it’s important to know which...
by Erik Bork | May 31, 2014
Script Magazine has just published my new article where I discuss the issue of “formulaic” writing, and the use of story structure paradigms to help guide the process of crafting a screenplay. It begins thusly: Writers often rebel against the idea that a...
by Erik Bork | Feb 25, 2014
I was honored to be listed as one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers” by former MGM executive and Good in a Room author Stephanie Palmer. She included me alongside such luminaries as and Steven Pressfield — whose book The War of...
by Erik Bork | Feb 6, 2014
SCRIPT MAGAZINE has published my online article where I break down the SAVE THE CAT “genres”, as I see them, of most of the big movies vying for Awards this season. Check it out!
by Erik Bork | Jun 15, 2013
SCRIPT Magazine has published my article analyzing the common elements of screenplays that sold in 2012. One of the key things that I noticed was the pretty obvious SAVE THE CAT genres of each. Here’s how the article begins: We screenwriters want to...
by Erik Bork | Mar 26, 2013
Script Magazine has published my new article delineating the two types of stories on television — “procedural” and “personal” — which are easy for writers to get confused by. It’s being posted on their website in connection...
by Erik Bork | Nov 23, 2012
Script Magazine online published my article about ARGO’s use of creative license today. Here’s how it begins: Having adapted a number of true stories for the screen, I found myself wondering, as I watched Argo, which moments might have been...
