I’ve lived most of my life in the Los Angeles area, and although L.A. is a sprawling diverse megalopolis, it’s also an insular industry town, with the industry in question being what we Angelenos ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

There is a lot of screenwriting advice out there. If you've ever been in a writing class, you've probably been given Save the ...

I worked as a script reader (back when human beings were still doing that kind of thing) and I never DNF'd a script. But there were times I wanted to, simply because the writing and/or story wasn't ...

What is screenwriting software supposed to do? The simplest answer we could think of is: make our lives easier. Peter J. Haas provides a round up of the more popular screenwriting software packages ...