There’s an adage in Los Angeles that everyone has a script. If you’ve ever been out during the middle of the day – when people should be working, but yet the coffee house is packed – you get the creeping feeling that this is true. And a major bummer for anyone trying to break into the film industry. If there are millions of scripts floating around out there, why would anyone bother with yours?<\/p>\n

Have hope. I have read a lot of these ‘floating around’ scripts. Let me assure you, they’re terrible. Terrible comes in a variety of shapes a sizes: no character introductions, convoluted plotting, bizarre subject matter, no heart. <\/p>\n

I have been reading scripts and writing coverage for eight years now – for independent producers, production companies, other writers, screenwriting competitions – and, despite all the material available to help people improve the quality of their writing, the material is still pretty dull.<\/p>\n

Perhaps in trying to check all of the right boxes we’ve somehow lost track of the basics. Basic storytelling and how to do it in a way that’s fresh, with a voice, and with heart. <\/p>\n

So, as a reader exhausted of reading mediocre scripts, I’ve decided to start posting some of the problems I run across again and again – in the hopes of giving you, my fellow writers, more tools with which to craft. <\/p>\n

So, the story begins here. Screenwriter to screenwriter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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