Yesterday, I proclaimed that I expected Bite After Bite to rule the weekend and win the Blood & Ink First Scene Showdown. And now I’m going to explain why. The Bite After Bite pages were the only pages out of the 62 submissions where I felt that the writer had captured the exact promise of […]

I know you guys are dying to know my prediction for how I thought this weekend’s voting would play out. I boldly proclaimed that one of the scenes was a clear winner. Did that scene win? I’ll tell you right now. Here’s how I suspected the voting would turn out. I thought Bite to Bite […]

You’ve got about an hour left to vote for the best scene in the First Scene Showdown. It’s a close race so every vote counts!  For those of you who already voted, though, it’s time to get your Scriptshadow Newsletter on. This is a goodie! I teach you about two secret unknown pages in your […]

What I liked most about this showdown was that every time I opened an e-mail submission, I would read the logline and think, “Ooh, this sounds good!” You can’t even begin to understand how amazing that feeling is when you compare it to what I usually go through, which is that I have to repeatedly […]

Today’s script feels like the movie Tarantino was writing as his final film before abandoning it. That script was called “The Critic,” about a movie critic. I can imagine today’s antagonist being exactly who Tarantino envisioned for his own critic. Genre: Dark Comedy/Thriller Logline: A long-suffering sous chef seeks revenge after a chauvinistic food critic’s […]