Screenwriter

Dipping your toe into the screenwriting waters. I had my “aha” moment. A few of them actually. Suddenly, I didn’t need to write — I had to write. What started as a slow crawl, became a freight train. Every unoccupied waking moment turned toward the new idea in my head…

As a screenwriter, should you learn interactive scriptwriting? Is interactive entertainment going to play a predominant part in television’s future, or has it already reached its full magnitude? As with all things, there is no way of knowing, and I am not one to make predictions. …

A script described as “in development” is probably a term you’ve heard before, but what does it mean? If a script is in development, it is working its way through pre-production and the rewriting process. …

Writing a feature-length screenplay can be an incredibly demanding and exhausting experience. Why would you want to put time and effort into writing a script treatment? …

This is part of an ongoing series of tutorials about playwriting, screenwriting, and TV writing, taken from the courses I taught, both online and in-classroom, at Vancouver Island University. I’m publishing them now in hopes they’ll prove of use to budding scriptwriters out there, as well as more experienced ones…