The Script Doctress

Learn to have fun writing a screenplay from Freaky Tales Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are names worthy of memorising. Their names glistened through the cinematic world when they won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, for their short…

I always ask screenwriters and playwrights “What is it you want to say in your script?”, and frequently they overlook the significance that the answer to this question will bear on how they approach their script, &how much passion they inject into it.

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Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

— Bong Joon-ho

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
—Martin Scorsese

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Screenwriting Competitions: Everything You Need to Know For emerging screenwriters, writing often comes with a certain degree of doubt: Is this script going in the right direction? Am I on the right path? Is this at all a good idea I am exploring? In th…

Whilst screenwriting competitions are integral parts of the writing machine, unforunately it has become harder to distinguish the real industry-run competitions from "marketing ploys" run by marketers and oligarchical influencers.

Here's your complete guide to competitions:
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Your Four-Act Structure Cheat Sheet for Writing Pilots Everyone who has watched TV series knows the four-act structure instinctively. There is a familiar rhythm to almost all TV shows: the rising and falling action, the recurring suspense, the inevitab…

Almost all TV shows are written (consciously or unconsciously) on a four-act structure plot. Here's your cheat sheet for it. It's much simpler than you think and it will change your approach to your pilot.

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