by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Nov 24, 2024 | Masterclass, Personal, Resources, Tips
Bev and Jess’ Collaboration By Beverly Nault and Jessica Spring Brown Happy December! Happy End-of-Year fellow writers! JESS: Bev and I wanted to try something different with the PSA newsletter which we share month by month. We decided to collaborate this month...
by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Nov 24, 2024 | Masterclass, Tips
Besides the technical rules pertaining to things like grammar, spelling, and rhetoric, here are 7 essential rules that are crucial for the function of storytelling, regardless of cultural or story structural differences (Western vs. Eastern, or other global...
by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Oct 30, 2024 | Masterclass, Tips
In Honor of Cleaning Out Your ClosetBy Carlo Dall’Olmo I was contemplating my story the other day after having gone through a reading of it, trying to figure out how to do the next rewrite. I say “contemplating” because really what I was doing was surfing the...
by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Oct 30, 2024 | Masterclass, Personal, Resources, Tips
The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script, by Jim Mercurio, published 2019, 361 pages Review by Beverly Nault “The notion that a scene is a story in and of itself is not merely a clever paradigm; it is a fundamental truth about the nature of...
by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Oct 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tom Stempel is writing about the Academy Museum again, but this time with a happier outlook, then reviewing a good new movie ‘Babes,’ and then a not quite so good movie ‘The Idea of You,’ and finally some not-so-good miniseries ‘True...
