Writing For Screens
Glenn GersAn old screenwriter -- and new novelist -- sharing the process of creative writing in a time of chaos and possibility. Skills, tools, observations and explorations.
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“Ways To Be Wicked”
I like my thrillers dark, twisted, funny and human. My favorite plot twists are the ones in which we discover people are more complicated than we thought, or in which we watch how people handle discovering they need to do things that yester...
Getting Real By Describing Dreams
For me, the tipping point to a project becoming “real” is when I stop trying to make things up and start trying to describe imaginary things as if they had happened.
A “project becoming ‘real’” means: it is no longer a thing I want to writ...
WFS Recommends: “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals” By Oliver Burkeman
This book isn’t specifically about creative writing, but it sure does help creative writers.
But it begins with a premise so upsetting that most people won’t even open the book: the shortness of our lives.
I urge you to go with it, though...
“Fail (A Love Story)”
I think this is the best script I ever wrote.
It’s a romantic comedy about a guy whose idiotic accidental death forces him to reconsider what life is all about. With the help of a spiritual advisor who is either God or just a slacker in a...
When The Creative Snowball Starts To Roll By Itself
When you’re creating something, there’s a period of work when you are just trying to pile up raw materials and manipulate them into some kind of form.
I think of this as trying to make an imaginary snowball, because of the phrase “snowball...
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Retired screenwriter, sometime online screenwriting teacher, impending novelist.
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