My interview with 2021 Black List writer for her script A Hufflepuff Love Story. Sophia Lopez wrote the original screenplay “A Hufflepuff Love Story” which landed on the 2021 Black List. …

Quotes from professional writers about the importance of characters in the story-writing process. Over the years, I have aggregated 100s of writers on writing quotes. I was browsing through them recently and noticed a recurring theme: How many quotes are about working with and the importance of characters. …

Another in the excellent screenwriting series Raising the Stakes. Jonathan W. Stokes is a screenwriter with a unique credit to his name: Five of his original screenplays have been named to the annual Black List. That alone should get your attention, but there’s also this: Over the last few years…

Learn all you can, but ultimately it’s about your Stories and your Creative Self. It is perhaps the single most fundamental truth about writing in general and screenwriting in particular I know… There is no right way to write. No single formula. No one system. …

My interview with 2021 Black List writer for her script A Hufflepuff Love Story. Sophia Lopez wrote the original screenplay “A Hufflepuff Love Story” which landed on the 2021 Black List. …

78 shots in 45 seconds = One of the most memorable movie scenes ever. After I first saw the movie Psycho (1960) as an impressionable youth, there wasn’t a week that went by for several years that, while taking a shower, I didn’t recall (and get freaked out by) this…

Reflections on the craft from the writer of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World’s End, and Baby Driver. Another excellent compilation of observations about screenwriting from Outstanding Screenplays: Edgar Wright whose screenwriting credits include Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs…