My goal is to help the beginner screenwriter in his / her challenging
journey to write an original, creative screenplay:
I offer a Screenplay Writing Guide with online
screenwriting tools.
Everybody thinks that they can write a screenplay when they watch movies, TV-films or videos. Unfortunately, just watching a movie does not make you a screenplay writer. You need to know how a story works and what makes it work. You have to develop an ability to see your own story from above and structure it as a screenplay. When you have a good screenplay idea, and you are "inside" your story, it is very difficult to look at it from the outside and use the right turns, the right words, the right dialogue, and the right plot-line.
Actually it is true:
Everybody can write a screenplay as long as you know how.
With logic, knowledge of the craft, the right way of brainstorming, determination, passion, and commitment to research and time; you can write your screenplay. Anyone who can think, can create a great, original screenplay.
“There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story
inside you.”
Maya Angelou
“There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story
inside you.”
Maya Angelou
Nicolas Cage in the movie "Adaptation" (2002)
Writers: Susan Orlean (book), Charlie & Donald Kaufman (screenplay)
"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."
Ursula Le Guin (from 'A Few Words to a Young Writer')