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5 Ways To Get Your Screenplay Read

February 18, 2025

Have you written a screenplay but you don’t know how to get industry professionals to read it? This is important because ultimately it’s about getting as many eyes on your script as possible. The more people who read it, the more chances that someone...

Holiday Slashers: How ‘Heart Eyes’ Scares Up a Killer Concept

February 13, 2025

Roses are red / Violets are blue / Heart Eyes is the new holiday slasher / At a theater near you

Write On: Comedy Writing with Brent Forrester

February 13, 2025

“My recommendation to anybody who is writing animation is to take advantage of the things you can do in animation that you can’t do in live action, which is to spend an infinite amount of money, right? If you and I are going to write a scene and you ...

Meera Menon on Breaking Zombie Genre Rules in ‘Didn't Die’

February 12, 2025

As screenwriters, we probably all have some variation of this dream—to make a film, and get accepted into a prestigious festival like Sundance or SXSW, and stand on the stage afterward to face an applauding crowd. It’s a great dream. But how do you c...

Multi-Cam TV Writing Tips from a Top Showrunner

February 11, 2025

Michelle Nader is one of the most accomplished multi-cam and comedy writers working today.

How To Write a Contained Screenplay: 8 Great Scripts With One Location

February 5, 2025

Contained screenwriting can be challenging. Not everyone is wired to tell a story that involves only a small amount of characters and that mostly happens in just one or two locations. But like most creative endeavors, the right kind of limitations ca...

What Editing Can You Teach You About Screenwriting

February 5, 2025

There’s a cliché in Hollywood that a film is made three times: once on the page in the form of a screenplay, the second time is on set when it’s shot with the director and actors, and the third time is in the editing bay. While any filmmaker can argu...

Filmmaker Cooper Raiff Talks "Bumping" in Screenwriting

February 3, 2025

If there’s one writer/director whose work I’ve been consistently excited by and whose name at festivals promises a project both heartbreakingly raw and funny, it’s Cooper Raiff. He was a SXSW breakout in 2020 with college comedy Shithouse, which snag...

How Sundance’s ‘Rabbit Trap’ Screenplay Took Shape

January 31, 2025

For his feature debut and Sundance premiere Rabbit Trap, writer/director Bryn Chainey took what might seem like an unconventional path to develop the period horror story. After drafting two unproduced features with the goal of trying to fit industry ...