Our wrap up notes for the fifth session in our 2026 Script Essentials Webinar series Our fifth Script Essentials session was ...

“Judging a screenplay from a finished film,” an apocalyptically disheartened screenwriter once told me, “is like arriving at a murder scene and instantly deciding that the victim had it coming.” It’s ...

Our wrap up notes for the fourth session in our 2026 Script Essentials Webinar series Our fourth Script Essentials session ...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy Gary Sanchez Productions. We’re posting weekly transcripts of Season 2 of Slate’s Working podcast for Slate Plus members. This season’s host is Adam ...

If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

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