by Phoenix Screenwriters Association | Dec 30, 2024 | Masterclass, Personal, Tips
When I was growing up, it wasn’t the calendar that structured my life. It was school. August or September felt like the start of the year, May the end. School was great about providing structure in many ways. Your day, semester, and year were mapped out for you. There...
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 | Sep 29, 2024 | Masterclass, Personal, Resources, Tips, Tools of the Trade
AI or I? AI and I? by Jessica Brown How do you AI? Most people right now think the great debate is between the Republicans and the Democrats. They argue about which side of the aisle you should be on. But did you know that there is another great debate going on?...
