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Famous Screenwriters Get Rejected Too
It’s important for rookie writers to keep in mind that all screenwriters, even the most successful, get rejected. It happens to everybody –it’s normal. It’s something you try to get used to, and...
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Creative Blocks & Fixes – Breaking the Story
We sometimes forget how important it is to start out with a great idea for a screenplay. The concept has to grab the reader from the start and keep them turning pages. It has to feel familiar, yet...
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Blocks & Fixes – Writing The Screenplay
You’ve managed to overcome the blocks that got in the way while breaking the story for your screenplay. This next phase, the actual writing part, will feel like running a marathon. It’s more of a mind...
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Is Bill Cosby A Narcissist?
“He was like, ‘Let’s take off your clothes and get you in to bed because you’re so sick and we need to take care of you, I’m helping you.’ He put me in bed and then started taking his clothes off, I...
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How Writers Survive In Hollywood
Hollywood is full of larger than life characters – actors, agents, directors and producers –who bark out orders at their petrified assistants, and one up each other with faster cars, gazillion dollar...
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How To Find A Mentor In Hollywood
The first rule about finding a mentor is it’s all about them. At first. You want to build a relationship that works for both of you –not a one way street. If they’re not getting anything out of the...
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Odd Places Famous Writers Like To Work
When you set out to become a writer you have to really commit to working at it – 24/7. And, it’s not easy writing and rewriting, day in and day out, chained to a desk. That’s why some of the most...
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Creating A Second Act In Hollywood
“Success in screenwriting today is more about a series of small breaks.” One writer who keeps reinventing himself is Woody Allen. He went from stand-up to writing short stories for the New Yorker....
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Creating Your Second Act In Hollywood
There are many reasons you might want to reinvent yourself. What your doing isn’t working. You’re burned out on the same old thing. The trends are changing out from under you. Ben Affleck is the most...
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Famous Screenwriters’ Big Breaks
“I had no formal education whatsoever, completely on my own from the age of eighteen, financially and in every other way, working crappy jobs. And then one day I had an epiphany. I think I was...
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The Clueless But Well Intentioned Narcissistic Parent
“Your parents were so ahead of the times,” my boss gushed. I just looked at her, blankly, puzzled. Ten years later, I finally “git it” because so many parents nowadays are using the same parenting...
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Famous Screenwriters On Perseverance
“I think as a screenwriter you just have to assume that there’s going to be a 90% failure rate. As so I just thought, ‘Well, okay, I’m a screenwriter—I’m going to write one screenplay a year for the...
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Mindset: Write Like A Low Budget Producer
In recent years, the market for “big budget” studio screenplays has pretty much dried up for novice screenwriters. The studios are going to their “go to” produced writers – with considerable track...
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Writer’s Mindset: Just Get Your Foot In The Door
You can break into screenwriting in a million different ways. Don’t listen to people who tell you that you have to do it “their way.” Like everything else about this town, the only rule is there are...
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Original Thinking In Selling Your Screenplay
Screenwriter Michael Elliot built a career on sending his screenplays — not to Executives at the studios or producers, but to Hollywood professionals on their way up. This proved to be smart and...
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Writers Mindset – How Old Is Too Old For Hollywood
George R. R, Martin is 67 years old. He’s the originator of the Emmy winning Best Drama, Game of Thrones. He seems to be doing quite well in television at his advanced age. It does happen. Of course he...
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Is mental illness and horror movies padding Hollywood’s wallet?
Movies made by Hollywood use mental illnesses to jack up the sensationalism and rack-up movie ticket sales. Horror movies such as, Psycho, Shutter Island, Silence of the Lambs, The Roommate and we must...
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9 Ways to Stop Procrastinating on Your Screenplay Now
According to writer-therapist Dennis Palumbo, a friend and personal mentor, procrastination is ultimately about a fear of being judged. He tells his clients (screenwriters, tv writers, and novelists),...
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Finding Your Sceenwriting Mentor
The first rule about finding a mentor is it’s all about them. At first. You want to build a relationship that works for both of you, not a one way street. If they’re not getting anything out of the...
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Writer’s Voice: Embrace Your Oddity
Finding your voice is a lot like looking deep inside yourself and trying to figure out what makes you a different person from everybody else. Most writers don’t give it a lot of thought. They just keep...
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