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Here’s the wrong way to look at writing a scene. Slap together a handful of exciting scenes and then...

Far too many novices write scenes that simply convey information. This is boring. Audiences (and readers) don’t want exposition....

Here’s the number one mistake novices make in writing a screenplay. They fill their script with lots of scenes...

When in doubt, rely on irony to spice up your story. In “Titanic,” there’s irony that a woman feeling...

When writing any scene, ask yourself three questions: Why today? Why this person? Why this location? In the opening...

The purpose of every scene is to advance the story. A second and equally important purpose is to reveal...

Kurt Vonnegut wrote several popular books including “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle.” Before he wrote novels, he wrote short stories....

Read many screenplays (even by experienced screenwriters) and you’ll often run into scenes that serve no other purpose than...

You rarely see characters in TV shows or movies going to the bathroom. That’s because that action is irrelevant....

Scenes represent the building block of your story. Although the purpose of every scene is to advance the story,...