How a Great Script Paints a Whole Picture

How a Great Script Paints a Whole Picture

Such brevity is all but demanded in scripts today, all the better to help readers breeze through the script, right?

# Read # Style & Substance
5 min read

Writer and Showrunner Greg Johnson on Breaking In and Staying In

Writer and Showrunner Greg Johnson on Breaking In and Staying In

... the “big break” often comes in the form of smaller, sometimes imperceptible “micro breaks.” It’s a mistake to overlook those.

# Read # Interviews
11 min read

Rough Ride Over the Digital Rainbow

Rough Ride Over the Digital Rainbow

In proportion to every dolphin that she earned as a pet in Roblox, she produced one less poem, song, or picture in real life.

# Read # The Creative Mind
5 min read

Artist Snapshot: Robin Rose Singer

Artist Snapshot: Robin Rose Singer

I think I lost about ten pounds, but I made it out feeling invincible and have never wanted to do anything else in life since.

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2 min read

The Queue: 365 Movies I Never Saw Because I've Spent Too Much Time on Twitter - Part 3 (March 2023)

The Queue: 365 Movies I Never Saw Because I've Spent Too Much Time on Twitter - Part 3 (March 2023)

I guess I'm a huge Martin McDonagh fan now?

# Read # Reviews
4 min read

Hollywood Films Written By and About Women - Part 2

Hollywood Films Written By and About Women - Part 2

" ... it was also no coincidence that when the big studios decided to unionize in the 1920s, most of those labor unions didn't allow female members."

# Read # The Business of Art
7 min read

Writer / Director Timothy Scott Bogart: Family Man

Writer / Director Timothy Scott Bogart: Family Man

If he wasn’t an addict and a gambler, there could never have been the triumphs. But even more than that—he was in love with two women at once—and yes, I could have played that down, but I found that fascinating and something that was real and messy and complicated and worth exploring.

# Read # Interviews # Mentoring
18 min read

Perfectly Ordinary: The Resistible Rise of the ChatBot

Perfectly Ordinary: The Resistible Rise of the ChatBot

Programs like ChatGPT ... according to Noam Chomsky and others, are actually distracting us from the true goal of creating a technology that thinks.

# Read # The District # The Business of Art
5 min read

Positive Parenting Your Inner Writer

Positive Parenting Your Inner Writer

Do you give yourself "the talk"—that you're wasting your time, that you'll never be good enough, that your script will embarrass you, that you'll disappoint the people who read it?

# Read # The Creative Mind
11 min read

The Next Great Sports Movie?

The Next Great Sports Movie?

These days, anyone with a cell phone and a TikTok account can be a celebrity, so maybe our adoration of movie stars, recording artists, and athletes are going to suffer when fame seems so accessible.

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6 min read

Hollywood Films Written By and About Women - Part 1

Hollywood Films Written By and About Women - Part 1

The fact that writing was seen as "women's work," ironically created a window in which many women forged influential careers in the industry and were able to quickly expand into directing, producing, and executive roles.

# Read # The Business of Art
7 min read

Artist Snapshot: Christopher J. Ewing and Callie Bloem

Artist Snapshot: Christopher J. Ewing and Callie Bloem

Film work is endlessly fascinating and rewarding and never-ending, and that’s even before taking into account all the incredible artists, collaborators and businesspeople with which you get to meet and work.

# Read # Snapshots
3 min read

Hurt

Hurt

And for a moment, they were how they once were. Ben, the protector. Mariel, the protected. But no, they weren’t the children they used to be.

# Read # Fiction
14 min read

Conflict: The Lifeblood of Your Story

Conflict: The Lifeblood of Your Story

Make no mistake, narratives are very much like a car. They need to be constructed in a specific way in order for them to go anywhere.

# Read # Style & Substance
6 min read

Serving Up Notes

Serving Up Notes

... you are a chef and your script is the meal. Why? Because I’m hungry, recently rewatched "The Bear," and this analogy works.

# Read # Style & Substance # The Business of Art
7 min read
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