Submitting your script: Is it ready?
The degree to which a script has to be truly [...]
Patience and perspective in script development
There’s been a lot written about the development process [...]
Designing story: a script consulting experience, part III
My last two blog posts have attempted to lay out [...]
Designing story: a script consulting experience, part II
My last post introduced a day-long script consulting session [...]
Designing story: a script consulting experience, part I
A couple of weeks ago I invited a script client [...]
Is 3-act story structure passe…?
There’s been a lot written online lately about the [...]
Dealing only with closed chapters
My last post (“The risk of self exposure”) made [...]
The risk of self-exposure
Here’s another basic principle of the craft that writers [...]
The myth of recognition
One consistent issue beginning writers have with modeling characters [...]
The writer’s paradox
Lately, I’ve had some interesting discussions with clients about [...]