Screenwriter Blog Posts

7 Tips For Effective Producer Follow-Up Calls

Congratulations, your pitch of your screenplay was compelling and now a literary agent or producer has requested your screenplay. Be proud of yourself as this ...

Ready To Sell A Screenplay? 11-Point Checklist To Begin

When you want to sell a screenplay, it can be hard to know if your script is really ready to be shopped. It seems that ...

Seven Major Career Skills For Screenwriter: What Can You Outsource?

One of the challenges for screenwriters and really many other active, ambitious creative people is trying to find time to do all the things they ...

Don’t Let Formatting Kill Your Writing Flow: The Case for a Professional Script Typing Service

Stop Fighting Your Software and Start Writing Your Story: Why Pro Script Typing is the Secret Weapon Writing a screenplay takes an enormous amount of ...

Using Archetypes in Screenwriting

VIDEO! The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a ...

5 Ways to Establish Your Screenwriter Identity

Screenwriters often wonder whether they should write screenplays in the same genre or if they should write in different genres to show their range. Find ...

Writing Screenplay Dialogue: 3 Crazy Ways To Improve It

Screenplay Dialogue: Lots of Crazy Ways to Improve The title of this article promises 3 crazy ways to improve your dialogue—but guess what? You’re getting ...

Selling A Script: How To Increase Your Odds

Maybe you’ve just completed re-writing the last page of your script.  Now you’re excited about the idea of selling your screenplay to a studio or ...

How To Write a Good Screenplay: 3 Key Objectives For Every Scene

https://youtu.be/5rR_kFsjeR4 When writing a screenplay, many screenwriters want to hurry and get their first draft on the page without doing a lot of planning because just ...

The Power of Persistence: Should You Give Yourself a Do It By or Quit Date?

One of the interesting comments I hear from time to time is that a writer is giving their screenwriting career another year or two to ...

Should I Put 1 or 2 Spaces Between Sentences?

In dialogue, how many spaces between sentences?  Are there 2 blank spaces between the period and the next sentence? Or 1 blank space? Actually, Guy, it’s ...

Planning for Success in Screenwriting: Actions (Part 2 of 2)

As I covered in Part 1 of Success in Screenwriting, there are two types of goals: 1.  Results Goals:  These are the final results you ...
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