Part Two A Practical Approach Segment 13: A Blueprint: A big part of me doesn’t want to include this segment. The most valuable parts of this essay are any parts […]

Segment 12 Creating Resonance: I conclude our theoretical foray into the craft of screenwriting with an overwhelming question. Unlike the women in the rooms that come and go, we will […]

Segment 11 The Writing Is the Thing! I know you. I do. When I look into myself, I see you staring back at me. You are, like me, always and […]

Segment 10 Premise is King? As a writer and a person with the occasional pretension, I often groan loudly when An Insistent Writer on a website somewhere repeats the mantra […]

SUBsegment 7 Subtext Step 4—Avoiding Overtext(64) I first recognized the importance of this term while reviewing a Nicholl Prize winning script called The Jumper of Maine—a beautiful script which more […]

Segment 7 Subtext in Dialogue Dialogue seems like such a skill; the kind of thing that’s just a talent. No matter how much you try and adorn it, classify it, […]

SUBsegment 6: A Brief History of the Super-hero as Protagonist In an earlier times we would have no doubt had this discussion solely about anti-heroes. We would have talked Falstaff […]