“Hold my beer” is getting clammy, but it’s worth exploring why it works as a Twitter joke.
Danny Manus warns that screenwriters are unwittingly being drawn into cults. Yet most popular podcasts inherently cult-like.
As longtime readers know, I love me a supercut. This one by Roman Holiday explores the trope of characters sitting up in bed after a nightmare.
I have a hunch that some readers may have a lot of experience with AdWords. You might have good advice for Stuart, both in terms of maximizing exposure and minimizing frustration.
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Story problems in math rarely overlap with story problems in screenwriting, but today I have one that I could use some help figuring out.
Partially-redacted sales data for The Variant is available for curious data-miners.
Whenever a family member forwards an email with a warning about an urgent peril to my health, I immediately visit Snopes.com to confirm my suspicion that it’s a hoax. I then copy a link to the article and send it back, with a gently-worded request to please check Snopes before sending out similar emails. Today’s […]
A reader from Belgium writes: I am a dedicated user of Sophocles. Indeed, my new film, its breakdown, call sheets, budget and whatnot have been generated with that software, which I find the best, most complete, film-minded and reliable that I have ever used (and I used or tried about everything that is out there […]
The Scrippets plug-in for WordPress seems to be working well for self-hosted blogs, but it’s no use to folks who use services like Blogger, Tumblr and the like. For people on these platforms, the cost of simplicity is customization — they’re easy to use and hard to modify. But in an effort to share the […]
UPDATED. See below. For the past four years, I’ve been including little blocks of formatted screenplay examples in my posts, such as… INT. LIVING ROOM – DAY As the phone RINGS, Gary dozily reaches one dirty-socked foot off the couch to sit up — and suddenly finds himself falling. He lands hard, dazed. We REVEAL […]
Once upon a time, I had a MySpace page, to which I happily added anyone as a friend. But right around hitting the 1,000 friend mark, I realized my patience for the site’s embedded idiocy — the 1998-style formatting, cheesy graphics, junior high demographics — was finite. I left it sitting fallow,1 even while recognizing […]
