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 ...

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 ...

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David Lynch has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the organization announced on Wednesday. According to the WGA, the late ...

Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, ...

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, ...

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 ...