Welcome to the first installment of my new “Ask the Coach” column on Script Mag! This month's question is specifically about the three-act structure in screenwriting: "What I'm running into is...
Not Three-Act Enough?
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Your Writing Questions, Answered
My new “Ask the Coach” column on Script Mag launched this week! As a writing coach, I answer a lot of questions for writers about how to make the work of writing actually happen. As you may already...
‘Psycho Goreman’ Is a Wacky Sci-Fi Homage
An interview with writer-director Steven Kostanski on his writing process and how he brought his bizarrely creative story to life in the film PG: Psycho Goreman.
How to Write All Year Round, The Pandemic Edition
This is the third and final article in our "new year to write" series! This article is about some of the lessons we learned in 2020 about writing all year round even in the most difficult and...
7 Mistakes Writers Commonly Make With Goal Setting & Writing Resolutions
Since it's the first day of the year, and like many writers you probably have goals and resolutions on your mind, I want to highlight a few common mistakes writers tend to make when setting goals...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘2067’
Five screenwriting takeaways from 2067 including “a hook that keeps your audience wondering” and “a time travel explainer moment.”
Complete Your Writing Year
I've got a special exercise for you today. As we begin working through the Make This Your Year to Write process in my Called to Write community, we start by completing the current writing year. To...
‘Breach’ Models Past Sci-Fi Horror Classics
Five takeaways sci-fi screenwriters can draw on in their own scripts from sci-fi space thriller Breach, a sci-fi space thriller in the vein of the original Alien and The Thing.
‘Skylines’ Breaks Sci-Fi Barriers
An interview with writer-director Liam O’Donnell about his third installment of a sci-fi action trilogy whose creation spans the last decade and was made on a relatively small budget.
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
This week I've rounded up a collection of my favorite Called to Write articles for you, designed to inspire your writing life, offer guidance and support for times you might be feeling stuck...
6 Steps to Tackling a Major Script Revision
Despite everything that's going on I'm thrilled to have finished a major revision of the first act of my script. While there's more to go, getting the first act sorted for the new vision for the...
6 Tips To Keep Writing When It Feels Like the World Is Falling Apart
I've been thinking a lot about how to keep writing when the world is both literally and figuratively on fire, which led to this week's article on the Final Draft blog. It was in part inspired by a...