All right, guys. In honor of the upcoming short script contest (You’ve got 9 days left to enter – and it’s free!), we’re going to do another short script weekend mini-contest. Last weekend we did dialogue-focused shorts and the results were a mixed bag. The short and sweet of it? You guys are better than […]
I’m not going to lie. I wasn’t thrilled with the results from last week’s dialogue challenge. Nobody blew me away with any world-changing dialogue. It seemed like some people weren’t even paying attention to the dialogue. They had an idea for a short and dialogue happened to be a part of it. I take responsibility […]
The author of the best selling book and mega-smash box office hit, The Martian, comes to bat with his first TV pilot! Genre: TV Pilot – 1 hour drama Premise: “Mission Control” follows the NASA mission control unit as they attempt to push a new space station into orbit, which will eventually fly to Mars. […]
Congratulations to Poe’s “The Man of A Few Words,” which won this weekend’s Dialogue Short Script Mini-Contest. He wins a First 10 Pages Consultation from me. Poe’s a longtime kick-ass commenter so make sure to congratulate him! Genre: Black Comedy Premise: (from Black List) When an out-of-work divorced mother stops taking the court-ordered medication that […]
Wow. So. Um. Okay. Let’s get this out of the way first: Wow! Only in Hollywood can an Awards Show have a twist ending. Feel bad for the La La Land guys. “You just won best picture!” “Hurrrrraaaay! I’d like to thank my father, who’s up in heaven right now, my dying daughter, and Charlie, […]
