PDF screenplays

PDF screenplays
A new site with the noble mission statement of providing the best quality screenplays, teleplays, treatments and comic scripts for your educational needs. Highly recommended.
* sadly, due to various cease and desist letters and server issues, this particular site is currently unavailable

Slow train

My cunning plan to enlist other screenwriters to the “Screenwriter’s workbook” exercise has so far hit bumps on the rail. I simply don’t know enough writers who are a) willing to share a writing process with others, b) don’t find it useful enough, c) too busy. All are valid reasons really, but I was hoping [...]

Kill a darling to save a life

Years ago, I wrote a novel. It has since languished in my drawer. I’ve always been conflicted by it. It has serious flaws. The beginning starts off well enough, the middle meanders and the ending falls flat with an audible thud. Reading Syd Field’s Screenwriter’s workbook last night, I realised, that I had in fact [...]

Writing excuses

Writing excuses
Writing excuses is a fairly new writing podcast - only four episodes old – and is brought to you by a trio of established writers, most notably Brandon Sanderson, the writer who has been given the daunting task of finishing off Robert Jordan’s twelfth and final book of the Wheel of Time series. The [...]

Quickies: Don’t say it #1

If you were lucky enough during your school years to have an English teacher who cared about creative writing and didn’t simply follow prescribed material with all the enthusiasm of a lump of cardboard… lucky you. You may skip this post.
Have you ever heard the phrase “Show, don’t tell”? Odds are that you have. In [...]