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Inspired by my own post last week about staying in love with your script, I decided to make this week's post a tough love reminder. Don't...

If you dissect a flower to see all its inner workings, it may not look as beautiful to you anymore. If you spend all day, every day, with...

Spec scripts don't sell like they used to. What's a spec script? Basically, it's a script that's sold, not requested. In other words, if...

Some podcasts have prerecorded "holiday mailbag" episodes this week, as they're on vacation. So I thought I would do something similar!...

Which qualities of yours no longer serve you? Were you picked on in school, so you had to become detached in order to shield yourself?...

If you want to work in the film industry, watch what's being made. Know who's making it, and who's buying it. That's not to say you have...

In physics, frequency is the rate at which vibrations occur in the forms of sound waves, radio waves or light waves. As Nikola Tesla...

Understandably, the biggest question I get from clients is "How do I get an agent?" That's because, like the rental market in Manhattan,...

There are a buh-zillion screenplay competitions out there, and most of them charge a fee. Unless you have a money tree in your backyard,...

What is a query letter? The word "Query" comes from the Latin "Quaere," which means to "ask" or "inquire." So when you're writing a query...

Hello! In order to send anything to very important peeps in the industry, you'll need to have their contact info. Here's how you get it:...

Have you ever decided to make a change in your life like "I'm going to start exercising," or "I'm going to be a better parent," or "I'm...

Julie Powell became a published writer by tasking herself with the self-inflicted challenge of cooking every recipe in Julia Child's book...

It's one thing to say, "Hey, I'm tired of playing basketball. I'm going home." It's another thing to say, "I'm tired of playing...

I love dysfunctional female characters. Perhaps it's my ego- I like seeing the personality defects I don't have. Or perhaps I enjoy...

If you wait until you're almost done writing your script to decide your protagonist's main flaw, then I hope you enjoy cutting your...

I heard from someone today who has an unwelcome mouse in their house. They told me they've seen a few holes where a mouse could be...

They won't buy the milk if they can get the cow for free, right? But they also won't buy the milk if all you do is show them a blank...

Story is story, but the medium is everything. You have a great story, right? It's about a girl who gets swept up in a tornado and taken...

I started to write this blog post yesterday. I spelled out step-by-step how to make your own movie. And then I felt like a big fat...