The Screenwrightist

With so many screenplays seeming like stage plays and stage play versions of films, it's hard to know why one should be which. Essentially any stage play can become a decent film but not so in reverse. A movie version of a play may not be as...

In stage plays and television stories writers can make it seem like people are endlessly talking about anything and everything. The story often doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to the topics the characters discuss or...

When I first began writing, it was with the intent to write screenplays. I had no idea whether whatever story I was concocting would even be best told in a film. I chose the medium first and tried to fit whatever story I came up with...

Some people may consider stories like amusement park rides that thrill and excite. Many stories having those qualities doesn't mean they aren't also much more. Stories are always about people, so stories really are about...

For many writers stories don't present themselves whole but rather in parts and in spurts. It doesn't always flow when they're at the writing table or even in the writing mood, it comes whenever it wants to. So no matter where you are...