Genre: Romantic ComedyPremise: (from writer) A marine biologist, up to her ankles in oysters, flounders on Capitol Hill trying to save the Chesapeake Bay from a silk suited, Republican lobbyist.About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script for an Amateur Review, send it […]

I was originally going to post something else today but had to scrap it at the last second. So I decided to post my character checklist document instead. This is something I’ll occasionally send off to people I give notes to who are having trouble creating interesting characters. The problem with most screenplays isn’t that […]

Something happened with the bogus joke of a blogging system that is Blogger, and when I woke up this morning, the look of my page had changed.  I’m not sure why this happened and since I haven’t gone into the design segment of Blogger in over a year, it’s probably going to take me a […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: A pair of pharmaceutical reps, one crazy, one conservative, travel to a drug expo to try and land the most important deal of the year.About: This finished on the lower half of the 2009 Black List. Outside of that, little is known about the script. It appears to be Eric Lane’s breakthrough screenplay. […]

Genre: DramaPremise: A young woman at a care facility for at-risk teenagers deals with an unexpected pregnancy. About: One of the winners of the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship. Writer: Destin Daniel CrettonDetails: 121 pages (This is an early draft of the script. The situations, characters, and plot may change significantly by the time the film is […]