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Amtrak Plans to Offer Free Train Rides to Writers
Picture your perfect place to write your screenplays -- somewhere comfortable, inspiring, a place that gets your creativity moving? Of course, 100% of all writers everywhere are picturing a train right...
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Researching for Your Screenplay? Here Are a Few Things to Think About
If you have ever written a screenplay before, or are in the process of writing one, chances are you've put in your fair share of research into the world you're reproducing on the page. Research -- is...
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Hey Screenwriters! Amtrak is Now Taking Applications for Their Free Residency...
Well, it has happened -- and much sooner than expected. Less than a month ago, writers Zach Seward and Jessica Gross made a passing comment on Twitter expressing their desire for Amtrak to start...
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Introducing the Sundance Episodic Story Lab, a Place for TV Writers to Cut...
VOD platforms are beginning to change everything about the creation and consumption of TV shows and movies, with one of the big changes being the sheer amount of media audiences are wanting to consume...
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This Infographic Reveals the Daily Routines of History's Greatest Creative Minds
It's easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, allowing our creative endeavors to go by the wayside indefinitely until we can work them into our schedules. But it's interesting to...
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Get Your First Act Written! This Animated Video with Pixar's Michael Arndt...
Some of the greatest pieces of screenwriting wisdom that I've come across in my journey of learning the craft have come from Pixar alumni. Regardless of what kinds of stories you're trying to tell,...
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Screenwriting Tips: How to Approach Genre as You Begin Your Script
A screenplay is a puzzle made up of pieces you cut yourself that you fit together to form a picture you make up as you go. And if a screenplay is a puzzle, think of genre as the box it came in. It has...
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Grab Some Running Shoes & Mess Up Your Desk! Science Weighs in on What...
Finding which tools will bolster your creativity is not only important for your work, but to also keep things interesting. Maybe you've had friends, colleagues, even industry professionals share their...
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The Story of Story: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Structure
It is a truism that, "we tell ourselves stories in order to live." But, it is remarkable what a human characteristic the drive for narrative is. What purpose does it serve? No matter, it's pretty much...
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Why 'Game of Thrones' Writer George R.R. Martin Uses an Old School DOS Machine
For most writers, the internet provides them with virtually every tool they could ever need to write their respective narrative pieces. Word processors, screenwriting applications, even outlining...
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'Menthol' Micro-Budget Film Case Study Part 4: Meet the Cast & Crew (Video)
Our festival run is almost complete and we're preparing for our imminent online launch. Direct distribution is a moving target, and we're constantly shifting our release strategy and making...
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What Makes a Character Sympathetic? This Video Essay from Screentakes Explains
One of the most challenging aspects of screenwriting is creating multidimensional characters that your audience can identify with, relate to, and be entertained by. Many times when I get hung up I ask...
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Infographic: John August's 11-Step Guide to Writing a Scene
A screenplay is made up of a lot of different pieces: acts, sequences, scenes, etc. Think of them as multi-sized blocks that you must stack, tear down, rearrange, and throw away until what you have...
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Submit Your Teleplays Now to ScreenCraft's 2014 Pilot Launch TV Script Contest
If you're interested in getting some exposure in TV writing, you might want to look into ScreenCraft's Pilot Launch TV Script Contest. They are now accepting submissions for hour, half hour, webisode...
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What Does the Writing Process of Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Dustin Lance...
Writing processes are as diverse as the writers who labor through them. There's really no one way to churn out a script, but if you've just started on this incredible screenwriting journey, or are in a...
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The Story of Story, Part II: This is Your Brain on Story
A few months ago, I wrote a post called The Story of Story, which attempted to explain, in as simple a way as the subject can bear, the roots of narrative structure, and specifically, how these roots...
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'We Believe What We Can See.' Watch This TEDx Talk on the Mystery of Story
In the 80s, the joke was that everyone, no matter what they did during the day, had a screenplay to hawk. With Joe Eszterhas getting millions for scribbling the plot of One Night Stand on a cocktail...
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Tips on Impregnating Your Brain with Ideas from 'Nacho Libre' Screenwriter...
What does screenwriting look like? Waking up at 6am, pouring a cup of coffee -- black, sitting down at a desk with last night's Chinese take out strewn about, turning on your computer, going over...
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From Concept to Distribution: An Interview with 'Anomaly' Showrunner Terrell...
Here at No Film School, we focus a whole lot on the process of making feature films. However, long-form storytelling like television narratives and web series are entering a golden age in which...
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Get to the Choppa! Enter ScreenCraft's Action & Thriller Script Contest for a...
Today, ScreenCraft announced that they are now taking entries into the 2014 Action & Thriller Script Contest, which will feature cash prizes (that they've doubled since last year), as well as a...
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