Scott Myers posits an interesting tip for screenwriters – know your audience! Hollywood obsesses over target demos. The “demos” part is short for demographic group. Therefore a target demo is a specific audience a movie studio or TV network is aiming for. Think about it: 18-30 year-old males are considerably different in terms of their life Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers dives into the history of the Spec Script and how it came to be what it today. What exactly is a spec script? How did they come into being in the first place? What are some of the things that can happen with a spec script? How are managers, agents, producers, talent and Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers ran an excellent series on five habits that you must invest in in order to excel at screenwriting (or filmmaking for that matter). Think Concepts If you write a spec script based upon the first story idea that comes into your mind, that script will likely suck. Even if it’s decent, it probably Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers identifies some best practices for when to enter and exit a scene in your screenplay. Here’s another screenwriting mantra: “Enter the scene as late into the action as possible, and leave the scene as soon as you can.” If you don’t believe me, how about the dean of contemporary screenwriters William Goldman: “You Read MoreRead More
Screenwriting requires it’s own style often depending on the whether the script is a selling script or a shooting script. Scott Myers details some of these differences and examines a few scripts for writing style. Let me preface my comments by making a distinction between a selling script and a shooting script. A shooting script is a production Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers confronts fear as the inhibitor of creative expression. I’m not a psychologist, but I know enough about the writing process to understand that if you allow these and like-minded voices to dominate your thoughts, you will have a hard time hearing your creative voice. So the question on the table is, How do deal Read MoreRead More
Scott Myer breaks down the simple truth… now please share this article on Facebook and Twitter Seems simple enough, right? At some point, you have to plant your ass in a chair and write the damn pages. However you will notice this — (*) — I added to this particular writing mantra. And that asterisk Read MoreRead More
Experience matters. There’s no getting around that. It takes time and practice to get masterful at something. How does that translate into number of scripts you have to write? Scott Myers tackles this question drawing from his own experience. K-9 was the third screenplay I wrote. The first one Stand Up I wrote solo. The second one Dream Car I Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers illustrates the life of a script reader who’s job is to read and cover terrible scripts in search of a good one. Outside of yourself, the single most important person in the life of your spec script is more than likely the reader assigned to it. Almost no material gets submitted in Hollywood Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers discusses how to recover as a screenwriter from a terrible studio project. I wrote a movie that sucked. I don’t think it sucked so much because of my contribution. In fact, the script got me a ton of work. When the studio went out with the project, dozens of hot young directors vied Read MoreRead More
Scott Myers of Go Into The Story answer this question about when to say, “I’m finished” For a working screenwriter, this is an easy question to answer: You know you’re done with a script when you hit its due date. But on any spec project without a hard out, you pose an excellent question, Loobs. Read MoreRead More
