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Tips for helping you decide what screenwriting books on craft you should read out of the dozens that are so often recommended.

This blog post explores the relationship between dialogue and setting and why some words are more suited for certain worlds than others.

If you've never read a screenplay before, you've never seen a parenthetical before. It's a formatting device used exclusively in...

Remembering that character arcs are all about inner change, there are many stories where the protagonist fails to change, or changes for...

Today is Rudy's 7th birthday! He's the only thing I love in this world more than writing, and stories, and writing about stories. . . LOL. I can't believe my little love nugget is turning into an old man, but I'm so grateful I get to be his mom. Thanks for sharing your life with me! If you'd like to see more of our adventures, please follow Rudy on Instagram at #rudytherudabaga.

Before Avatar leaves Netflix, I'm trying to get all my friends to watch it. It's not just a kids show, I tell them. It's really, really...

When I mention the movie The Dark Knight and dialogue, which quotes first come to mind? Is it this one? Or perhaps this one? Or perhaps...

The second element in a screenplay is the action line. This is sometimes called description, direction, or just action, and it describes...

This summer I'm teaching a workshop on common character arcs, and as I prepare for it, I'm wondering if I have anything new to add to the...

While a story's plot may be shaped by the thing your character wants, it's meaning comes from the thing your character needs. It's less...