A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

I’ve lived most of my life in the Los Angeles area, and although L.A. is a sprawling diverse megalopolis, it’s also an insular industry town, with the industry in question being what we Angelenos ...

This screenwriting seminar will introduce writers to what they need to know to write a full-length screenplay. We will cover professional screenplay format; the proper definition of a scene; the ...

Google Docs provides support to external add-ons to further extend its feature set. To write and format a screenplay in Google Docs, you would require to install an ...

Waiters, personal trainers and, more significantly, thousands of people whose scripts actually get produced owe a lot to the Write Brothers. Celebrating its 30th anniversary recently, the Burbank ...

What is screenwriting software supposed to do? The simplest answer we could think of is: make our lives easier. Peter J. Haas provides a round up of the more popular screenwriting software packages ...

Once upon a time, screenwriting was a labor-intensive vocation. And that labor was hardly confined to the age-old challenges of storytelling. “Just the sheer physical pain-in-the-ass quality of typing ...