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The Top 100 Films of All Time - Part I

How to Be a Professional Screenwriter

Is Writer's Block Real?

Why See a Movie Twice?

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?

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends

The Process Is What Separates screenwriters from Screenwriters

Are High Concept Ideas Overrated?

Screenwriters: Nothing Is Better Than Something

Finance 101 for Writers

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?

The Birmingham Cop

Embrace the Creative Process

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?

Overlapping Dialogue

Hired, Fired, Hired Again - A Hollywood Yarn About Trusting the Process

Adapting Your Own Screenplay As a Novel

A Safe Space

Diversity In Screenwriting

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

Violence in Screenplays

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

Screenwriting Books

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

Writer's Block

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?

Hollywood Hoaxes That Screenwriters Need to Know

How Do You Know When Your Script is Ready?