In "What to Expect in a General Meeting," I laid out what a general is: a professional introduction between a writer and ...

What's your favorite scary movie? No, this isn't the start of a blog about Scream, but rather a deeper look into the subgenres of horror. Rarely is there a movie that falls right into the genre of ...

If you were a lonely, ostracized, slightly stinky fisherwoman in a nondescript medieval village, and you really wanted a man, what would you do? Your first answer probably wouldn't be to turn to a ...

Digger (Tom Cruise) is an eccentric billionaire whose oil drilling company has put the world at risk of a catastrophic environmental disaster. Now, it falls on him to use his influence and powers of ...

When we talk about classic horror movies, we usually list the same titles year after year. Horror movies like The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s Halloween, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Shining, A ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ihas hit the silver screen and inevitably will become one of the biggest and best movies of 2026. Whether the adaptation of one of two major epics attributed to Homer ...

When utilized for the right reasons, flashbacks can be one of the most powerful storytelling tools available to screenwriters. Flashbacks can reveal crucial backstory, deepen character motivations, ...

There's an old narrative principle, first developed by Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov, later referred to as Chekhov’s Gun. The principle came from a Chekhov quote that stated, ...

A transition is a formatting element that signals a change from one scene to the next. In screenplay format, transitions appear flush right on the page, between scenes. They were a standard feature of ...

Can using voice over help or hurt your screenplay? Is it lazy storytelling, or a great device used by some of the best filmmakers in cinematic history? The answer is yes and no. It all depends on how ...

There are many elements of a great story. Think about the stories that are your favorites and the ones you’ve seen once but have stuck with you over the years. Was it an urban legend? A novel so ...

For every screenplay that becomes a feature film, there are far more that are never produced. Many scripts, even scripts that have sold for a lot of money and had A-list talent attached, find ...