If you lost the person you love most in the world, would it be acceptable to simply disappear without any trace? If so, would it be an act of self-preservation? Or reckless self-sabotage? These are ...

When the Avengers assembled to face Thanos in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame, theaters erupted. Few scenes are as crowd-pleasing as the moment reinforcements arrive to save the day at the last ...

In "What to Expect in a General Meeting," I laid out what a general is: a professional introduction between a writer and ...

Alfred Hitchcock once described audiences experiencing a horror movie in a fascinating way. "The audience is like a giant organ that you and I are playing. At one moment we play this note, and get ...

When we talk about classic horror movies, we usually list the same titles year after year. Horror movies like The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s Halloween, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Shining, A ...

Thrillers are built on escalation. A great thriller should feel a lot like a great roller coaster ride. The experience isn’t one continuous drop at the same speed. There are climbs, falls, twists, ...

Micro dramas aren't just super short screenplays. They are structured around an entirely different kind of viewing experience. Traditional feature-length screenplays tell one continuous story across ...

When you read screenplays, you’ll quickly see that the text doesn’t stretch from one side of the page to the other as you would see in most hardcover novels or paperbacks. In screenplays: Dialogue is ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ihas hit the silver screen and inevitably will become one of the biggest and best movies of 2026. Whether the adaptation of one of two major epics attributed to Homer ...

For years, Philip Fracassi was doing what most working writers do: writing constantly, chasing opportunities, and trying to break in through multiple mediums. He worked in film for decades, spent ...

There's an old narrative principle, first developed by Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov, later referred to as Chekhov’s Gun. The principle came from a Chekhov quote that stated, ...