Whenever I mention titles, I see a little dance going on in the comments section. It’s an exciting topic these titles, probably because they’re the most elusive element in screenwriting. Ruminating about what makes a good title gets my anxiety pumping. Do I even know the answer to what makes a good title? Or are […]

We’ve got a spec script with another wild twist ending! Genre: Legal Thriller Premise: When a rich New Yorker is the lead suspect in his wife’s murder, he hires his daughter from a previous marriage, whose wounds from him deserting her have never gone away, as his attorney. About: This spec sold earlier this year […]

The viral book is now being turned into a movie starring Sydney Sweeney Genre: Thriller Logline: Hard up for a job after spending 10 years in prison, a young woman is hired by a seemingly perfect family to be their housemaid, only to learn that her boss, the mother, is a raging gaslighting lunatic. About: […]

I love it when a movie like Smile, or one of its sequels, does well at the box office. In this case, Smile 2 took in 23 million dollars, which is 2 million more than the first film made. Why do I like this? Because it’s something any aspiring writer on this site can achieve. […]

What if I told you I could shave dozens of hours of work off your next screenplay? It’s simple.  Stop putting so much time into description! Not long ago, I was consulting on a screenplay. After I sent back the notes, which detailed some plot issues (the script lost a lot of its momentum in […]