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How To Make Genre-Bending Work in Your Screenplay
Sometimes you have an idea for a screenplay, but it’s not suited for just one film genre. In fact, it might contain tropes from two different genres or even multiple genres! If this is the case, you’ve just dreamed up a genre-bending screenplay.
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Write On: Cruel Summer's Showrunner Elle Triedman
Spoiler Alert: This podcast interview may contain spoilers about Cruel Summer. With an excited fanbase and even more exciting plot twists, the drama/thriller series Cruel Summer is back for Season 2 on Freeform. Final Draft sat down with showrunner E...
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What is the Iceberg Theory and How Can It Help Your Writing?
Ernest Hemingway was not a screenwriter.
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Worldbuilding 101 Using the Star Wars Model
“Worldbuilding” is when writers create a world for their characters to inhabit and story to take place.
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The Bricks of Breaking In: Showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker On The Power of Teamwork
For showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Abbott Elementary, Harley Quinn), their interests in writing came in very different ways. With Halpern, it was a competition to write a Seinfeld spec when he was just 16 where the winner had the ...
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Character Archetype: The Femme Fatale
The femme fatale is a notable character archetype in cinema history. Think Catherine Tramell from Basic Instinct or Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. A true femme fatale is as captivating as she’s conniving, and desirable as she is deadly.
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How to Harness Dan Harmon's Story Circle to Tell Better Stories
Loosely based on / inspired by the Hero's Journey story structure, Dan Harmon's Story Circle has gained a sizable following in recent years, particularly among writers of episodic television. But even feature script writers can benefit from using thi...
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Write On: Wednesday Creators Al Gough and Miles Millar
The surprise hit and breakout role for Jenna Ortega as the titular character in Netflix's spin off of the Addams Family, Wednesday, was just as exciting to create as it is to watch. "The writer's room started the first week of lockdown, so writing a ...
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'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' Reinvents Frankenstein for a Modern Audience
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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