House-sitting is an ideal job for the underemployed writer. But Megan L. Wood recounts how one assignment went wrong: The owner of the house, let’s call her Emily, was flying with her husband via pri...
The new-and-improved Amazon Studios liked Chip Street’s screenplay Faeries enough that they wanted to feature it on their “consider list.” But that good news came with a catch: To m...
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Craig Mazin: My name is Craig Mazin. John: And this is Scriptnotes, a podcast about scree...
Since the launch of the Highland public beta last week, we’ve gotten great feedback. Thank you to our second-wave testers. I’m particularly happy with how our report card system is workin...
Craig and John take a look at the difference between plot and story with some help from the Littlest Pet Shop and Game of Thrones. Plot answers the “what” questions: What happens next? Wh...
After hundreds of scripts and tremendous feedback from our early testers, we’re making our new app Highland available as a public beta. Anyone who wants to try it out is welcome to download. Yo...
FDX Reader, our app for reading Final Draft scripts on the iPad and iPhone, came out a year ago today. Usually, when people say, “I can’t believe it’s been a year!” they mean ...
On the podcast, Craig and I have discussed how much the career of screenwriting has changed over the past few years, and how it’s gotten harder for many feature writers to actually make a livin...
John and Craig open the listener mailbag and sprint through twenty questions in just under an hour. ➤ When John sets a timer for himself, what is his work/break interval sweet spot? (1:12) ➤ How do y...
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Craig Mazin: My name is Craig Mazin. John: And this is Scriptnotes. This is a podcast abo...
Alex Morris looks at how Happy Endings found its footing: Rather than improve ratings by noticeably changing course (as Parks and Recreation had done after its first season), the cast and crew leaned...
Screenwriters can learn story and structure, but the ability to create real, tangible characters is more elusive — and ultimately more important. The best gauge of good writing is whether a scr...
Last year, Jay Faerber wrote a First Person post on his experience in the Warner Bros TV Writers Workshop. At that time, he was just finishing up the workshop and staffing season was underway. I aske...
John and Craig open the 36th Scriptnotes with a brief discussion about contracts, and then face writer’s block head on. “Writer’s block” is an overused term. When a writer cla...
On the 35th episode of Scriptnotes, John and Craig discuss the small, currently leaderless world of Walt Disney Studios, along with its challenges and opportunities. With so many of Disney’s di...
In response to the podcast discusson Craig and I recently had about the perceptions of nepotism and wealth in the film industry, a listener wrote in to share his experience. I am a trust fund screenw...
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hola y buenos días. Soy John August. Craig Mazin: Soy Craig Mazin. John: Este es Scriptnotes, un podcast sobre la escritura cinemato...
Clear a half hour from your schedule, because the Academy has a six-part video series on screenwriters talking about the craft. Writers include Lawrence Kasdan, Dick Clement, Brian Helgeland, Callie ...
My compatriots at Massive Joe have just released their second game, Escape from Age of Monsters. It’s available today for the iPhone and in super-HD on the new iPad. The game plays like Tiny Wi...
Gregory Poirier argues that movies have suffered because of misguided cost-cutting: A few years ago (pre-strike, though it is impolitic to say so), studios developed lots of material. Many creative m...
Craig and John take a brief look at the misguided Girls backlash and complaints about nepotism in Hollywood, before segueing to a bigger discussion of spec scripts and positioning: What are “sp...
PBS Off Book has a nice video about the design of opening credits. Karin Fong compares a great title sequence to raising the curtain before the show. Not every movie needs elaborate opening titles &#...
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Craig Mazin: I am Craig Mazin. John: And this is Scriptnotes. This is a podcast about scr...
Burn one minute and twenty-seven seconds with this nice motion graphic by Ryan Perera.
Craig and John just have to talk about the double-barrel craziness of the Joe Eszterhas/Mel Gibson spat. How often do you have screenwriters lobbing incendiary accusations at movie stars? Well, prett...
Two years ago, I announced on the blog that I was hiring someone for a new job called Director of Digital Things. Greg Tung was one of the final contenders for the position, and recently wrote about ...
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Craig Mazin: My name is Craig Mazin. John: And you are listening to Scriptnotes, a podcas...
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