Quick Tips: Setting the Stage
We’ve discussed before the importance of incorporating your locations into your writing. As the writer, you are the first location scout, production designer, and director… Read More »Quick Tips: Setting the Stage
Quick Tips
Quick Tip: Paragraph Breaks
It can be hard to decide where to put your paragraph break. You’ve got all these details and actions you want to include and no… Read More »Quick Tip: Paragraph Breaks
Quick Tips: Contrast
Contrast and juxtaposition makes for a quick and easy to way add tension to any screenwriting element. The contrast immediately raises questions and creates connections… Read More »Quick Tips: Contrast
Quick Tips: Given Circumstances
Today let’s look at another tool in the actor’s toolkit. Stanislavski, the acting instructor who laid the ground work for Method Acting, coined the term… Read More »Quick Tips: Given Circumstances
Quick Tips: Repetition & Difference
Repetition is a very powerful tool in the writer’s toolkit. Humans naturally seek out patterns in everything they encounter. Our ability to do so helped… Read More »Quick Tips: Repetition & Difference
Quick Tip: Don’t Forget Your Location
Too often, writers treat locations as an afterthought. They decide where a scene takes place, stick it in the slugline, and then forget about it.… Read More »Quick Tip: Don’t Forget Your Location
Quick Tip: The Prelap
We’ve talked about writing to the cut before, but I wanted to dig in on one especially useful tool – the prelap. Prelaps get noted… Read More »Quick Tip: The Prelap
Quick Tips: Objectives & Tactics
Writers just starting out often end up with flat scenes. Characters stand around and state exposition or what they want. Then they get it, or… Read More »Quick Tips: Objectives & Tactics
Quick Tip: Write to the Cut
Too often, writers think of scenes as discrete units. They forget that their story needs to work in its entirety. This results in bumpy scenes… Read More »Quick Tip: Write to the Cut
Quick Tips: Baby Steps
I’m sure that for most of us screenwriting is our passion. But going from Page 1 to that elusive THE END seems pretty daunting, right?… Read More »Quick Tips: Baby Steps