Genre: TV Pilot – Drama Premise: A former cop who’s lost custody of his son to a vindictive ex-wife, moves back home to plot how to get him back. In the process, he meets some old friends on the wrong side of the law, friends who may be the only people who can help him. […]

Genre: Drama Premise: Follows a group of characters, with the focus on a writer trying to finish his latest novel in the midst of a complicated affair. About: This is Paul Haggis’s latest writing-directing effort. Haggis’s film, Crash, won the Best Picture Oscar in 2004. Haggis has gone back and forth between big projects and […]

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Drama with a capital “D.” The screenwriter’s enemy. Today we’re doing something different. One of the biggest problems I see in amateur scripts is bad scene writing. The scenes don’t build, they don’t have any conflict, there’s no inherent drama in the scene. They just kind of lay there like a blanket. They’re forgettable. Which […]

Genre: Drama/Supernatural/Children’s Premise: An adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him the truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom. About: This one finished Top 5 on the 2013 Black List. […]