Spread the loveGetting Started with Screenwriting Apps In the age of technology, the art of screenwriting has evolved ...

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 ...

You don't need a finished screenplay to storyboard a story. The beat breakdown method turns a short story straight into a ...

Everyone’s a screenwriter. At least that’s the way it seems these days. Walk into a coffee shop and you’ll see a good percentage of patrons staring into their laptop screens. As you order your mocha, ...

One of the most widely used screenplay programs in Hollywood has a new tool to help with gender equality and inclusion. In an update announced Thursday, Final Draft — software that writers use to ...

Whether they’re submitting it to competitions, production companies, agents, managers, studios or talent, screenwriters need to go through a checklist to prepare their scripts for submission. This is ...

If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...