Story vs. plot in There Will Be Blood
Ask 100 writers on the difference between story and plot and you'll get 101 different opinions. Here's how I define the two: plot is...
The blender concoction that is Flight
In Spike Jonze's Adaptation, (a meta-comedy/dissertation on screenwriting I will definitely visit here at some point) Nicolas Cage's...
Conflict: Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater has probably never read Save The Cat. That's the most popular of the many books out there on how to structure a...
Style over substance in Deadpool
Lets address the irony that my first post is about a Marvel movie after I panned their stuff in my blog introduction. I avoided Deadpool...
Welcome to Goldenrod Revisions
Peter Biskin noted in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" that screenwriters were once considered dispensable "monkeys with typewriters." A lot's...