Is your screenwriting career stuck on pause? Let me help you un-pause it. One of the hardest things about screenwriting is the solitary aspect of it. It’s the long hours you spend alone working on something when you have no idea whether it’s going to connect with people or not. This feeling of loneliness and […]

Genre: Comedy Premise: Ten years after graduation, one of New York’s most eligible bachelors and his eccentric wanderlust wingman try to pull their recently divorced friend out of his rut by taking him back to Howard University’s legendary Homecoming for the best weekend of their lives. About: Today’s script made the Black List last year, finishing […]

Genre: Action-Comedy Premise: After a Hollywood assistant is publicly fired for admitting while on a conference call that he’d love to kill his boss, he finds his boss dead in the office the next morning and goes on the lam to figure out the real culprit, all while being hunted by his boss’s assassin. About: […]

Don’t worry. I give you five genres that you, as a spec screenwriter, can still write that get released in movie theaters! A question I get asked a lot is, “How does a good script become a bad movie?” The prevailing thought is that if it’s on the page, all you have to do is […]

Something has been happening frequently enough in the amateur consultation scripts I’ve been reading lately that I need to bring it up. Because if it’s happening in five of the last seven scripts I read, it’s happening everywhere. I’m talking about OFF-SCREEN STORY. Off-screen story is any story that occurs outside the pages of your […]