Screenwriting

A Hollywood Ghost Story (or: How I Wasted Six Months of My Life)

Sometimes it doesn’t make a…

Nudity In Movies: The Fine Line Between Tasteful And Exploitative

Did they learn nothing from Showgirls?

Rewriting

Don’t Think Like a Proofreader— Think Like a Director

“Show, don’t tell” and…

The Best of My Stories About Storytelling

A compilation of the most helpful advice I know

Soulmates: Why Dilemma Is So Important in Love Stories

The key to making your romances work

Every Tale is a Tale of Two Stories

How Maegan Houang embedded the macro story of China’s history with…

SCREENWRITING | FILM | REVIEW

Opening Credits Are the Film’s Love Letter

So why are they jilted by screenwriters?

What Makes a Book-to-Movie Adaptation Great vs Painful

Understanding the anatomy of success and…

For the Love of God, Don’t Describe Female Characters as Beautiful

And what you should describe them…

Exploiting Concept at the scene level — dialogue

A Comedy Scene that Perfectly Exploits its Concept