Writers Rehab

    The best time travel movies have one thing in common. The portal to the past or future is believable. Back To The Future is the best exa...

     This is so fundamental it's ridiculous, but a screenwriter can never hear it enough times.      You finish a first draft to see ho...

     As the author of one book on screenwriting and another on filmmaking (The Portable Film School), I'm always wary of the competitio...

     Whether it's in life or in the context of pursuing a career as a screenwriter, the presence of a mentor is important. Nobody does i...

     Dialogue can be lifelike or artificial. Lifelike is how people really talk. Artificial is sanitized lifelikeish dialogue. Much of the d...

     There's nothing more frustrating and disconcerting than to be nearing completion of a new script that has an amazing premise, somet...

     Finding the right story to tell is the hardest part of being a screenwriter (or any kind of writer). Compared to nailing down the ri...