The author of the best selling book and mega-smash box office hit, The Martian, comes to bat with his first TV pilot! Genre: TV Pilot – 1 hour drama Premise: “Mission Control” follows the NASA mission control unit as they attempt to push a new space station into orbit, which will eventually fly to Mars. […]

Congratulations to Poe’s “The Man of A Few Words,” which won this weekend’s Dialogue Short Script Mini-Contest. He wins a First 10 Pages Consultation from me. Poe’s a longtime kick-ass commenter so make sure to congratulate him! Genre: Black Comedy Premise: (from Black List) When an out-of-work divorced mother stops taking the court-ordered medication that […]

Wow. So. Um. Okay. Let’s get this out of the way first: Wow! Only in Hollywood can an Awards Show have a twist ending. Feel bad for the La La Land guys. “You just won best picture!” “Hurrrrraaaay! I’d like to thank my father, who’s up in heaven right now, my dying daughter, and Charlie, […]

A reminder that the deadline for the OFFICIAL SCRIPTSHADOW SHORT SCRIPT CONTEST, where the winner gets their script produced, is coming up soon! March 12th. So keep working on your short scripts and get them in by then! In the meantime, we’ll continue to practice with these mini-contests. Working off of yesterday’s dialogue article, this […]

I’m currently working with a writer on an understated psychological thriller. One of the issues in the script is that the dialogue is flat. Characters speak to move the plot along, offer information, reveal backstory, and occasionally tell us how they’re feeling. While this keeps the story moving, there’s a lifeless quality to the interactions […]