Last Saturday was our first one-day Los Angeles seminar: Save the Cat!® Makes a Sale: Practical Lessons from Working Screenwriters. A sell-out crowd and great Writers Guild speakers made for a spectacular event. Here are some highlights of the Master Cats! in action: Thanks to…
Join us to celebrate Blake’s life at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the Writers Guild Theater 135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90211
The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards for screenwriting have been announced and it’s an encouraging list. Encouraging? Well, sure. Several of the nominations are for writers I am really rooting for, including Diablo Cody, the creative force behind Juno, and Lars and the Real…
… after a whirlwind tour of Toronto and New York City. I met so many new people, and got a chance to get reaquainted with good friends, too. On the new friend front, I had two very successful talks in Toronto. About 50 of us…
Two days. Seven Screenwriters. One author of Save the Cat! A corkboard. Some pushpins. Coffee. Pastries. These are the ingredients for a weekend of intense creativity and this past weekend was no exception. I met with seven really, really on-top-of-their-game writers who are working on…
Gary Shusett, brother of Ron who wrote the story for Alien, runs Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, one of the best series of screenwriting seminars available in the U.S. This Friday, January 13, I will be appearing on a screenwriting panel Gary has organized at the…
