Screenwriting and television
Develop, format, revise, and finish stories meant to play through images, action, dialogue, and performance.
How to write a screenplay when you've never written one
A screenplay is 90 to 120 pages of six elements in 12-point Courier. What the format means, how to think in scenes, and how to finish a first draft.
How to outline a movie
Outline a movie with sequence thinking: eight movements, load-bearing turning points, an index-card pass, and a plan for dialogue-first scenes.
How to write a logline that actually works
A logline that works carries five parts in one sentence: protagonist, goal, opposition, stakes, irony. Worked examples and the test that costs an evening.
How to create a beat sheet (without a template)
Build the sheet from your own material first: list the changes, size them, then read it against the fifteen-beat Save the Cat! sheet to find the holes.
How to connect scenes in a screenplay
Scenes that work alone can still add up to nothing. How causality, cuts, entrances, and setups turn a pile of scenes into a script that moves.
How to improve screenplay dialogue
How to improve screenplay dialogue: compression to the frame, actable lines, cures for on-the-nose scenes, and the table-read test.
What makes a screenplay stand out
What makes a screenplay stand out to a reader: voice in the action lines, economy, specificity of image, and an opening that keeps its promises.
What “AI screenplay formatting” usually gets wrong
AI screenplay formatting usually paints indentation. Real formatting stores element types and recomputes pages — here is what that changes.
How to write a short film script
A short film script is one idea at about ten pages: one location, two or three actors, a turn on page seven or eight, and an ending you cut to, not past.
How to write a TV pilot that can carry a season
How to write a TV pilot that proves an engine: cold opens, season promises, serialized spines, and the television series bible that keeps it honest.
Comedy dialogue and timing on the page
How to write comedy dialogue that lands: beat placement, specificity over exaggeration, straight lines, undercuts, callbacks, and register.
How to pitch a movie idea
Lead with the logline, tell the story in three moves, leave room for questions — plus what the WGA floor pays for a story or treatment.
How to adapt a novel into a screenplay
A feature is 90–120 pages; the novel behind it is nearer 300. Adapting means choosing a spine, merging characters, making interiority visible.
Can AI help you turn a story idea into a screenplay?
How an idea becomes a script: logline, beats, scenes, pages — what AI can genuinely help with at each stage, and what stays your call.
How to finish a screenplay
Why scripts die in the back half of act two, how to get from a rough draft to a readable one, and what “done” actually means for a script.
How much money can you make selling a movie script?
The WGA floor on an outright spec sale is about $126,900 after the 2026 uplift; the median one-step screen deal is $450,000. Here is the full range.