A HUGE shout out to yesterday’s mini-contest scene winner. Deanb absolutely NAILED the “show two people fall in love without any dialogue” scene. Head back and sort the comments by “best” to read his killer interpretation of the challenge. Also, Nick Morris finished in second place with a strong emotionally charged scene of his own. […]

Today we’re going to explore one of the most important components in the craft of screenwriting – visual storytelling. If you can master this part of the craft, you’ll have seriously leveled up. That’s no joke. The best writers tend to be the ones who consistently convey things visually. Why is this? Because ACTIONS SPEAK […]

Genre: Horror Premise: Years after two girls sacrifice their friend to an entity they refer to as “the boy,” the less violent of the two gets out of prison and tries to rejoin society, only to start seeing the boy all over again. About: This script finished second on the 2015 Blood List to “Eli.” […]

Genre: TV Pilot – Sitcom Premise: A 30-something writer for an outdoors magazine suffers an injury that forces him to work back at the company offices, where the magazine is run by a bunch of delicate millennials with zero outdoors experience. About: This is a new sitcom coming to CBS which snagged the most in-demand […]

What happens when you switch a whole lot of shit around in a great script? Today’s script-to-screen breakdown tells you! Genre: Contained Thriller/Sci-fi Premise: (IMDB) After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack. About: This […]