The Golden Globes Awards are given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) whose approximately 90 members hail from 55 countries. Remarkably, according to the L.A. Times, February 21, 2021
Avoiding Script Cliches- and how to distinguish them from useful tropes.Avoiding Script Cliches- and how to distinguish them from useful tropes.
Greetings fellow screenwriter. Today I want to address the difference between tropes and overworn cliches. What is a trope? What is a cliche? Are they the same thing? The answer
A Quick Tip To Tricking Yourself Out Of Writing ProcrastinationA Quick Tip To Tricking Yourself Out Of Writing Procrastination
Greetings fellow creatives and writers. Today I want to cover a quick tactic on overcoming procrastination and actually getting your projects started or pages written each day. So usually, when
On CliffhangersOn Cliffhangers
One of my most-requested topics of advice involve cliffhangers -so let’s dive right in: What is a cliffhanger?Simply put, a cliffhanger is a plot device where the scene you’re writing
My Process: Adapting A Book For The ScreenMy Process: Adapting A Book For The Screen
Knowing that I had ten weeks to adapt a book into a TV Story Treatment and pilot. I like to know what I’m building, so I start with the show
On Writing Good TV & Movie Climaxes: 4 TipsOn Writing Good TV & Movie Climaxes: 4 Tips
The climax of your story is (usually) where all your character conflict and your unfolding plot is resolved or your protagonists goal is achieved. Usually this would be at the
Tips To Succeed At Writing Scary StoriesTips To Succeed At Writing Scary Stories
So the writing formula to get your reader scared is same formula for basic fiction 101: if readers fear for, or care, about the protagonist then they’re much more likely
Marc Henry Johnson Featured Speaker At Sherwood Players SeminarMarc Henry Johnson Featured Speaker At Sherwood Players Seminar
GET TICKETS HERE: EventBrite Page From GoogleNews Feed- Sherwood Players Productions in Hollywood announces its latest SPECTRUM TV & Film Industry seminar speaker, HBO Producer, and showrunner Marc Henry Johnson. Johnson
Writing Tips: Character ArcWriting Tips: Character Arc
Today I’m continuing our discussion on character development with one of the most popular issues on the larger topic and that is character arcs A lot of you have asked
Writer Tips: On Character profilesWriter Tips: On Character profiles
Hey everybody today we’re talking about characters again and a lot of you have told me that you really struggle with creating characters. The big struggle is that many of
