If it worked for Felix Mendelssohn and F. Scott Fitzgerald…
Perhaps you’ve heard stories about how a young Felix Mendelssohn transcribed note for note musical scores by Johann Sebastian Bach, just to get the feel of how Bach wrote music.
Or about how F. Scott Fitzgerald transcribed the novels of…
My interview with the 2021 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Byron Hamel wrote the original screenplay “Shade of the Grapefruit Tree” which won a 2021 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. …
Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
After a first pass, it’s time to crack open the script for a deeper analysis and you can do that by creating a scene-by-scene breakdown. …
A nearly 90-minute conversation with the noted writer whose credits include TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, as well movies such as Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News.
This is a 2017 interview with James L. Brooks whose Hollywood writing career includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show…
It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
As in years past, I will be tracking the year’s movie scripts as links become available.
Current total of 2021 scripts for download: 37. Newly added scripts (5): Cyrano, No…
My interview with the 2021 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Byron Hamel wrote the original screenplay “Shade of the Grapefruit Tree” which won a 2021 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. …
Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
After a first pass, it’s time to crack open the script for a deeper analysis and you can do that by creating a scene-by-scene breakdown. …
“Every storytelling exercise should begin by asking: Who is my audience and what is the message I want to share with them? Each decision about your story should flow from those questions.”
In Part 1, we considered a Harvard Business Review article about the influence of stories on the brain…
