Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Cole Haddon
Cole Haddon

2K Followers

Home

Books

About

Featured Book

Psalms For The End Of The World
Psalms For The End Of The World

A diner waitress on the run with a man wrongly accused of murder discovers the true nature of reality – and how scores of lives are interconnected across space and time by love, grief, and quantum entanglement.

2022

·
Cole Haddon
Cole Haddon

Stories

Pinned

Free Screenwriting Resources to Help with Your Next Script

A compilation of the most useful tools I’ve written and/or collected for aspiring and emerging screenwriters to challenge themselves and improve their craft — Over the past six months or so on Medium, I’ve shared many resources for aspiring and emerging screenwriters to call upon on their creative journeys. Some of these have been access to celebrated scripts available to download for free and study. Some have been detailed analyses of aspects of successful…

Screenwriting

5 min read

Free Screenwriting Resources to Help with Your Next Script
Free Screenwriting Resources to Help with Your Next Script
Screenwriting

5 min read


Pinned

My Ongoing Coverage of the Writers Guild of America Strike

A rundown of the articles “from the inside” written by me and WGA guest contributors — I’ve been a member of the Writers Guild of America West since the aughts. The sacrifices past members made on behalf of the union won me every protection I have today as a screenwriter. In fact, I would have nothing in my career without their efforts. Consequently, I must do…

Screenwriting

3 min read

My Coverage of the Writers Guild of America Strike
My Coverage of the Writers Guild of America Strike
Screenwriting

3 min read


Pinned

Screenwriting Tales from My Life in Hollywood

These essays about my career in the US film/TV business will hopefully leave aspiring screenwriters better prepared than I was when I arrived in Los Angeles. — After fifteen years as a professional screenwriter, I think it’s fair to say I have accumulated some war stories. Anyone who’s managed to stick around for that long in this business can say the same. When I joined Medium, one of my goals was to share some of them with…

Screenwriting

4 min read

Screenwriting Tales from My Life in Hollywood
Screenwriting Tales from My Life in Hollywood
Screenwriting

4 min read


Pinned

My Artist-on-Artist Conversations with Celebrated Screenwriters

After fifteen years as a professional film and TV screenwriter, I’ve started talking with old and new friends about who they are and how their personal stories inform the screenplays they write — Earlier this year, I turned to Medium and, more recently, Substack as ways to both discuss the arts and explore my own passion for them. The exploration part of this commitment involved interviewing artists I admire — authors, filmmakers, musicians, fine artists, and more — something I hadn’t done in…

Screenwriting

5 min read

My Artist-on-Artist Conversations with Celebrated Screenwriters
My Artist-on-Artist Conversations with Celebrated Screenwriters
Screenwriting

5 min read


2 days ago

The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 5

A compilation of arts-related articles that you might’ve missed — Note: You can read this article in its entirety at my arts newsletter on Substack, 5AM STORYTALK, which I encourage you to subscribe to for free. It’s my preferred way of communicating with readers. On the first and third Wednesday of every month, I share a list of arts-related articles…

Art

4 min read

The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 5
The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 5
Art

4 min read


Published in

Fanfare

·6 days ago

Q&A: Writer Ed Brubaker on Making Crime Pay and Protecting Your Voice in Comic Books and Hollywood (Part 1 of 2)

From real life crime to crime writing — and, of course, superheroes — the comic book titan turned TV creator discusses his creative journey — When Ed Brubaker’s name showed up in the comments section of my Substack, the art junky in me screamed. The multi-hyphenate storyteller — who has won more Eisners than I feel like counting — has been a part of my creative life since I first discovered his semi-autographical comic book…

Comics

21 min read

Q&A: Writer Ed Brubaker on Making Crime Pay and Protecting Your Voice in Comic Books and Hollywood
Q&A: Writer Ed Brubaker on Making Crime Pay and Protecting Your Voice in Comic Books and Hollywood
Comics

21 min read


Sep 14

The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 4

A compilation of arts-related articles you might’ve missed — Note: You can read this article in its entirety at my arts newsletter on Substack, 5AM STORYTALK, which I encourage you to subscribe to for free. It’s my preferred way of communicating with readers. On the first and third Wednesday of every month, I share a list of arts-related articles…

Art

5 min read

The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 4
The 5AM StoryTalk Reading List: Issue 4
Art

5 min read


Published in

Fanfare

·Sep 13

Lucasfilm’s Disregard for the O.G. Heir to the STAR WARS Empire Is Part of a Larger Entertainment Industry Problem

‘AHSOKA’ is the latest example of the company strip-mining the STAR WARS Expanded Universe for parts without properly crediting creators — I was sixteen the first time I saw a copy of the STAR WARS novel HEIR TO THE EMPIRE in the hands of one of those “cool kids” from high school who had made my life a living hell for loving “geek shit” as he would invariably refer to STAR…

Star Wars

18 min read

Lucasfilm’s Disregard for the O.G. Heir to the STAR WARS Empire Is Part of a Larger Problem
Lucasfilm’s Disregard for the O.G. Heir to the STAR WARS Empire Is Part of a Larger Problem
Star Wars

18 min read


Published in

Fanfare

·Sep 9

Q&A: ‘THE CLEANING LADY’ Creator Miranda Kwok on the Transformative Power of Art (Part 2)

In this second part of our conversation, the screenwriter walks me through how art has become both her way of trying to change the world…and surviving it — Miranda Kwok, creator of hit Fox television series “THE CLEANING LADY”, has spent the better part of her life in a reciprocal relationship with her art. As she creates it, it seems to create her back. At the heart of this dynamic is her drive to inspire empathy and understanding…

Screenwriting

13 min read

Q&A: ‘THE CLEANING LADY’ Creator Miranda Kwok on the Transformative Power of Art (Part 2)
Q&A: ‘THE CLEANING LADY’ Creator Miranda Kwok on the Transformative Power of Art (Part 2)
Screenwriting

13 min read


Published in

The Writing Cooperative

·Sep 8

Into the Black Hole: What’s at Stake for Comedy/Variety Writers in the WGA Strike

In exclusive interviews, three members of the WGA Negotiating Committee break down the MBA’s mysterious Appendix A and how the streamers are exploiting the writers covered by it — When Greg Iwinski joined the Writers Guild of America East, his work as a late-night writer was covered under what is known as Appendix A in the Guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement with the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Producers. “It’s called Appendix A because our contract is literally stapled…

Screenwriting

14 min read

Into the Black Hole: What’s at Stake for Comedy/Variety Writers in the WGA Strike
Into the Black Hole: What’s at Stake for Comedy/Variety Writers in the WGA Strike
Screenwriting

14 min read

Cole Haddon

Cole Haddon

2K Followers

Book Author

Cole Haddon is probably writing right now. And drinking coffee -- want to buy me one? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/colehaddon

Following
  • Terry Barr

    Terry Barr

  • Harvey Ross

    Harvey Ross

  • Tim Denning

    Tim Denning

  • Francisco Iglesias

    Francisco Iglesias

  • The Sturg

    The Sturg

See all (246)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams