What’s the Big Idea?

What’s the Big Idea?

THREE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU START WRITING YOUR NEXT SCRIPT In today’s marketplace, the critical importance of a strong log line cannot be over-emphasized. You need to be able to boil your idea down to its essence, i.e., two to three...
Nora Ephron – The Heroine of Her Own Life

Nora Ephron – The Heroine of Her Own Life

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.” Of all the moving things written and quoted in the wake of her far too early passing, the line above touched me the most. What wonderful, wise advice, and how clearly she seems to have lived it. She’s been...
An interview with Diane Drake

An interview with Diane Drake

from: adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com.au Diane Drake is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles.  She is best known for writing Only You (1994) and What Women Want (2000), and also teaches screenwriting at the UCLA Extension Writers’ program. I first came across...
Writing Secrets from Hemingway

Writing Secrets from Hemingway

I love me some Ernest. Okay, sure, there’s the philandering and the alcoholism, the excessive machismo and animal slaughter, (special condolences to the bulls of Spain, the elephants of Africa and the marlins in the Gulf Stream. Though, on balance, he did seem to...