Craft

When I was first starting out as a writer, I made the decision to constantly write the opposite of what…

Screenwriting is a creative process and like all creative things, it’s a bit messy. Not that you’d think it reading…

I kill people for money. Fake people, obviously. In scripts. But they don’t feel fake to me. I have to…

I can’t claim to have read every book on screenwriting (I don’t suffer from procrastination quite that badly) but I’ve…

There are a ton of good reasons why you should be writing science fiction. I’ll start with the obvious one…

Steampunk? What’s that about then? In the late 1970s and through the 80s, three authors—K.W. Jeter, Tim Powers and James…

Fantasy and supernatural drama has gone from being ignored and derided to the genre of the moment. Twilight, Once Upon…

Let me keep you in suspense for a little while. In my view, a thriller is a film in any…

I mentioned in a previous post why I know first-hand that structure can feel for some like their script nemesis….