Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.