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Five Lessons Writers Can Learn From "Ray Donovan"

November 9, 2017

For five seasons, Ray Donovan has been one of the highest rated series on Showtime. Created by Ann Biderman, a screenwriter whose credits include Copycat (1995), Primal Fear (1996), and Public Enemies (2009), Ray Donovan is a crime-drama series focus...

Tech Tips: How to Customize Element Settings

October 27, 2017

If you need to change how a particular paragraph type (i.e. Scene Heading, Dialogue, Action. Etc.) looks, Final Draft makes it easy.

STRANGER THINGS and "Barb": Creating Sub-Support Characters

October 26, 2017

(WARNING: Spoilers fall like leaves in here!)

Five Things Screenwriters Can Learn From Stronger

October 16, 2017

Stronger tells the true story of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by David Gordon Green, and written by John Pollono (based on Bauman's memoir), the film is a highly emotional and ...

Pen Densham's 10 Secrets to selling your script... and not your soul!

June 2, 2017

As a four-year-old, I was impressed by seeing my parents making short 35mm films for the movie theaters, even riding a live seven-foot alligator in one of them. Those experiences caused me to have a lifelong desire to conjure visual and emotional mag...