Screenwriting 101: How to write a feature length script in a week

David Wain and Ken Marino break down how they went from having "no concept" to a completed first draft of "Gail Daughtry and ...
Opinion
Foreign AffairsOpinion

How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention

Following this humiliation, Europe issued sweeping sanctions against Russia and joined the United States in offering extensive support to Ukraine. Most of the continent’s countries severed almost all ...
Plainview Herald

Behind the boom: How crews build a Fourth of July fireworks show

The sound of generators whirring filled the parking lot as food trucks began setting up in preparation for the Fourth of July celebration at Kidsville Park. Soon, that whirring became background noise ...

Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...

Mastering the Art of Script Lettering

Many people believe that perfect script lettering is a gift. They are wrong. It is a discipline. Achieving absolute precision with a paintbrush takes hours of deliberate practice, muscle memory, and ...

You’re a Filmmaker. How the Hell Do You Get an Agent?

For this installment of Trade Secrets, TheWrap spoke to several industry insiders about how to get an agent in today's ...
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Telling children to 'write properly' doesn't help them write.

In a recent class, I covered methods for teaching composition. I conducted a simple experiment there. I said this to the students: Suppose I read the compositions you wrote and return them to you. At ...
Comic Book Movie

Wonder Woman: Ana Nogueira Confirms She's Writing Script For DCU Reboot; Explains Her Approach

Last year, The Wrap reported that Supergirl writer Ana Nogueira had been tapped to pen the script for the new DC Studios Wonder Woman movie. This news was never made official (James Gunn stayed silent ...
The New Yorker

Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...
IGN

Seth Rogen Tells Filmmakers Using AI to Write Scripts to 'Go Do Something Else'

Seth Rogen has pushed back on the use of AI in movies, telling writers using the technology for their scripts to "go do something else." "I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...