Dan Erickson is currently one of the hottest TV writers in the business. He created, co-writes, co-produces and serves as showrunner for the popular and acclaimed Apple TV+ series Severance (starring Adam Scott and executive produced and primarily di...

The premiere episode of the fourth and final season of The Righteous Gemstones has a lot of people talking. The episode, titled simply “Prelude,” doesn’t feature any of the series’ regular cast. It also takes place during the Civil War, and not durin...

Maybe you’ve started or finished writing a feature screenplay or television pilot. Perhaps you’re still at the brainstorming stage. No matter what stage of the writing process you’re at, you might plan to enter your script into a screenwriting contes...

With the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus the acclaimed and popular series is once again capturing audience’s imaginations. With its mixture of exotic locales, sexual intrigue and existential conflict, The White Lotus has become an event show an...

Every year there’s a new wave of screenwriting contests that a screenwriter can enter in the hopes of getting more eyes on their feature screenplay or TV pilot. Some of these annual contests, like Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, show win...

So you’ve decided you want to be a screenwriter and write your very own screenplay for a feature film, TV show, or new media platform. This is a unique skillset, because film and television are visual mediums and collaborative art forms. Because of t...

Maybe you’ve started writing a feature film screenplay or TV pilot, but you don’t have an end goal yet? Or you’ve finished your script, but you don’t know what to do with it? Most likely you want a screenwriting career, but other than writing a scrip...

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...

The better prepared you are as a screenwriter, the greater the chances of you completing a screenplay and selling it. This is why it’s important to have a screenwriting strategy. What ideas are script worthy? How are you going to manage your time? Wh...