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The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part I
How to Be a Professional Screenwriter
What Is the Ultimate Purpose of Storytelling, If There Is One?
A Key to Great Screenwriting: Keep It Personal
Three Cheers for Judas Iscariot
Should We Ban Smoking in Movies?
What Peace In the Middle East Can Teach Us About Screenwriting
Should I Reverse-Engineer My Screenplay Around an Ending, a Scene, or an Emotion?
One of the Biggest Amateur Screenwriting Mistake: Making Your Villains Villainous
How Much Technology Does a Screenwriter Really Need?
Are Commercial Movies Pure Garbage?
How to Nail a Query Letter to Agents
Should I Write My Next Screenplay By Hand?
How the Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation Can Help Screenwriters
Is Citizen Kane Actually a Great Movie?
The Process Is What Separates screenwriters from Screenwriters
Are High Concept Ideas Overrated?
Screenwriters: Nothing Is Better Than Something
Film Dialogue Shouldn't Sound Like Real Life
Whether You're A Writer, Director, or Actor... Little Things Mean a Lot
As A Screenwriter, Is "Save the Cat" Worth Following?
Can You Really Teach Screenwriting?
The Auteur Theory Is Pure Bull$hit
What is the Purpose of Stories and Movies?
Seven Naughty Words in Hollywood That You Should Absolutely Embrace
Authenticity in Film is Boring
Can Screenwriting Books Guide Novel Writing?
The Backstory to American Graffiti
What's the Secret to Training So Many Oscar-Winning Screenwriters?
Want to Write A Better Movie? Think Like a Real Estate Agent
How Accurate Do Screenwriters Need to Be When Writing Screenplays Based on True Stories?
In the Age of Mass Shootings, Should We Still Have Guns in Movies?
After 50 Years in Screenwriting, Here Are the Two Questions I Still Never Answer
Bashing Hollywood Is Wildly Overrated
Should Dialogue Have a Structure Like Screenplays?
What's More Important - Story or Theme?
The Delete Key Is A Writer's Best Friend
Should Screenwriters Read Shakespeare?
Hired, Fired, Hired Again - A Hollywood Yarn About Trusting the Process
Adapting Your Own Screenplay As a Novel
How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 2
How I Elbowed My Way Into Hollywood -Part 1
How Many Characters Should I Have in My Screenplay?
Do the Pentagon and CIA Fund War Films to Inculturate Americans?
The Two Questions I've Never Answered
Is It Better to Outline My Screenplay or Just Start Writing?
The Power of Non-Violence In Life and Movies
Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
Box Office Success Versus Critical Acclaim
The Slap Heard 'Round the World
The Science of Storytelling (Part 2)
Is There A Science to Storytelling?
Should I Box Myself In By Picking A Genre Or Just Start Writing?
The Importance of Great Endings
Should I Copyright My Screenplay?
What Is the Absolute Minimum, Maximum, and Ideal Length of a Screenplay?
Screenwriting Word You Need to Know: GOOYOW
When Execs/Producers/Directors Ruin Good Screenwriting
How to Ramp Up the Energy of Your Screenplay By Using Better Locations
The Pros and Cons of Prologues and Flashbacks in Screenwriting
My Screenplays Get Optioned But Never Sell. What Should I Do?
Stereotypes Will Ruin Your Script
The Worst Writing Job I Ever Had
How to Stay Excited While Writing Screenplays
The Two Best Lines of Dialogue I've Ever Heard
What Was the Worst Script of 2021?
The Scariest Movies I Have Ever Seen
The Most Interesting Screenwriter I've Ever Met
How Can Screenwriters Avoid Leaving Out Necessary Plot Points?