10 Articles for Screenwriters

Hauge's The Five Key Turning Points of All Successful Scripts

What Makes Good Story?

Screenwriting Craft: Making Screenplays Vertical by Charles Deemer Hollywood loves buzzwords, and one of the latest is "vertical," as in make your screenplays vertical. Like many buzzwords, this one is based on a fundamental truism: it is easier to read a manuscript that is "vertical" with lots of white space on the page than one that has great text density.

The World of High Concept Ideas

Sitcom: What It Is, How It Works

The Dirty Dozen These 12 easy-to-follow rules could make the difference between a script sold or scrapped.

Points for Style

TUTORIAL: Movie Genres

Cinematic Formulas Commonly used plot devices and how they affect what you see in the movies.

To Live and Die in L.A. Information leaks, bid-rigging, pumping and dumping. Just another day inside the secret network that will make or break you in Hollywood.