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“If you can make the twists [in the story] hit your character in an emotional way and set up their emotional arc, then when the case twist intersects with them, if it’s hitting them in the deepest way, in the most unexpected way, maybe – then you’ve ...
Write On: Big Break 2024 Grand Prize Winners Laura Kroeger and Maia Mulcahy
“I think it was more like a litmus test of, where is the script? How would it be received? With this script, I was a quarter finalist in some competitions, and this was obviously the most exciting, the winning… I just wanted to really put my best foo...
Write On: 'Dying for Sex' Co-Creator & Co-Showrunner Kim Rosenstock
On today’s episode of Write On, we chat with Kim Rosenstock, co-creator and co-showrunner for the new limited series, Dying For Sex, starring Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate and Sissy Spacek. Based on a true story, Dying for Sex is about a woman diagn...
Color Farm: Empowering New Voices Through Final Draft’s Big Break Competition
For Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon, storytelling isn’t just about entertainment, it’s about creating change. As the founders of Color Farm Media, their mission is to amplify underrepresented voices in film and television. Since launching Color Farm in...
Write On: Paul William Davies - Creator and Showrunner of 'The Residence'
“I didn’t really set out to make Cordelia (Uzo Aduba) quirky. I just wanted to make her distinctive. I just really thought about who I wanted her to be and how I thought [birdwatching] would be an interesting way for her to approach her job. And the ...
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The goal of Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest has always been to boost the screenwriting career of winners and finalists. For writer Benjamin Kramer, winning the 2021 Big Break Action/Adventure category was just the push he needed to not ...
Write On: Peter Katz - Manager & Producer, Story Driven
“Sameness is terrible. Your goal is to cut through it. If you have a unique perspective, you’re going to take vampires or anything that everybody thinks they know and do it in a way that’s really exciting and gets people really pumped up about it. Th...
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Write On: Long Bright River Showrunner Nikki Toscano
“With an adaptation, you can never give back your first read. So, what are you taking away? What fills your soul? Why do you want to tell this story? And then that becomes sort of the North Star. And I’m tethered more by that North Star than by the a...