The Screenwrightist

When we write stories we are giving context for getting to know a fictional person. Character development is really character revelation and it's a similar process to how you might write an episodic series about this character. People show you their boring side first, your story is often a cliche at first. As you put...

Anybody can fill 100 pages in screenplay format and call it done. Trained moneys could hit the keys enough times to generate a 300 page novel. Just because it's long doesn't mean it's done or right. There's a general confusion as to what a full-length story is and the truth is page numbers are only a symptom...

In accordance with my interest in the first season of "Friday Night Lights" the TV series, I've found some more ways writers can learn from football players in particular but sports in general. The similarities between writing and sports are not as close as the differences are vast, but there are things athletes do that writers can mimic in their own way to help them get better at their thing.

Learning about writing can become a vocation of its own. There are so many books, so many classes, and so many theories. It can be daunting to know where you should start and when you should stop. Hard to know which guru to listen...

Special effects weren't invented in movies, rather in a novel writer's imagination. These ideas weren't able to be made into a visual story so they were written down by a novelist and put into books. These were dynamic special effects that are different...