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The fastest way to make any video look professional is to combine three things at once: cut on an emotional or visual beat roughly every three seconds, keep audio levels balanced under every scene, and hold one consistent color tone across all your clips. Editing is the invisible language that shapes how people feel time.

You might not have heard of Aaron Sorkin, but we’re pretty sure you’ll know his work.

If you’re an emerging screenwriter, you’ve likely heard it’s a good idea to build a brand or grow your online presence. But putting yourself “out there” can be intimidating, especially if you don’t want to look like a cringey self-promoter or some kind of screenwriting hack.  The good news is that screenwriter Nic Curcio has…

Ah the dream of being discovered through a screenplay contest; plucked from obscurity and showered with accolades and praise. Maybe some cash for your troubles. But the truth is, most scripts don’t even make it past that first round of cuts, never to be seen by taste-making producers or discriminating judges. Where did your script…

On the latest episode of the Write On podcast, we had the chance to speak with Derek Kolstad, the screenwriter behind the wildly successful John Wick franchise, Nobody, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Death Watch.

Long before actor, writer, and director Jon Favreau was a behemoth in the Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars universes, he was a struggling actor and writer hustling his way through Hollywood with a script he wrote on spec, the now-iconic indie hit Swingers (1996).