These scene showdowns always end up being a little more controversial than I expect. Some people have said that by creating this challenge, it forces writers to write bigger scenes than they otherwise would have. I don’t think that’s true. As unknown screenwriters, you have to hook a reader right away. So starting with a […]

Should today’s scene have been included in the First Page Showdown? A lot of you thought so! This week, I’ve been breaking down the top scenes in my Blood & Ink Screenwriting Contest. This is a contest writers had to pitch for—you had to come up with a good enough idea just to get in. […]

Grendl’s been getting a little testy in the comments the last 24 hours so I’m going to preface today’s review by saying if Grendl goes full Grendl in the comments section, turning the post into a war on the screenwriting and Hollywood community, I’ll have to shut him down. And since I want to hear […]

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 […]