I’ve lived most of my life in the Los Angeles area, and although L.A. is a sprawling diverse megalopolis, it’s also an insular industry town, with the industry in question being what we Angelenos ...

Writing a screenplay can be really hard. I struggle with it all the time, and I'm a professional. That's because every story ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

Waiters, personal trainers and, more significantly, thousands of people whose scripts actually get produced owe a lot to the Write Brothers. Celebrating its 30th anniversary recently, the Burbank ...

There is a lot of screenwriting advice out there. If you've ever been in a writing class, you've probably been given Save the ...