A working scene should contain three layers of conflict that operate simultaneously. When these elements combine, you create ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...

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I think a lot of beginning writers are always looking for cheat codes or fast ways to improve their writing. When really, the best way to get better is just to write a lot. But dialogue is one of ...

International writers guilds representing 67,000 professional screen writers across the globe are collaborating on developing an “ethical framework” for the use of AI in screenwriting. The Federation ...

Your screenplay lives or dies by its inciting incident, which paves the way for all of the conflict in your story to unfold. The inciting incident also establishes your main character’s goals and, ...

The Film Academy has unveiled its 2023 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting honorees, all of whom will receive a prize of $35,000 as well as mentorship from an Academy mentor throughout the year. They ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List will open submissions for the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting via its website at 9 a.m. PDT on May 15. The widely known ...

"The sun sets." This sentence convinced me to be a screenwriter. My would-be first novel opened in a desert. After several pages, I realized I was sick of thinking up different ways to say "It was hot ...