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One of the most important skills to master and an integral part of the writing process is rewriting. The following tips are for rewriting early drafts, eg going from 1st to 2nd draft or 2nd draft to 3rd draft.   As your script nears production you are polishing rather than rewriting significant aspects which is a different ...

In my last blog I detailed the Act 1 Story Architecture for Surrogate. I received several emails from you asking for a breakdown of the 3 Act Structure Plot Points in Surrogates screenplay as I have done for other films in the past. For an in-depth breakdown and explanation of ...

After an extended Australian summer holiday and focusing on writing a new screenplay I am back now in full swing for the new year and have 5 more quick screenwriting tips. Tip 1: Your main character must face set backs in the pursuit of their goal for without set backs ...

With the release of my feature film ‘Surrogate’ I am doing a series of blogs on what I learn’t or what my writing process reiterated to me. Your screenplay isn’t just about creativity, it’s a working document that will guide the practicalities of a film production so you need to ...

I got such a great response to my article titled “5 quick tips to writing a better Screenplay” I thought I would write 5 more. Tip 1 : Keep it secret When you start writing your first screenplay, don’t tell anyone, keep it to yourself and secretly plug away at ...

With the release of my feature film ‘Surrogate’ in 2022 I am doing a series of blogs on what I learnt or what my writing process reiterated to me. As I detailed in my last blog ‘Length Matters – What I learnt From Making The Surrogate #1’, when Beth King ...

With the release of my feature film Surrogate in 2022 I am going to do a series of blogs on what I learnt or what my writing process reiterated to me. When Beth King and I started writing Surrogate I set out a few parameters and one of those was ...

Tip 1: 2D = 1D – 10%…meaning…2nd Draft = 1st draft – 10% The first step of writing the 2nd draft of your screenplay is to cut out a minimum of 10%. If your 1st Draft is 100 pages then cut out 10 pages worth of scenes and dialogue. Trust ...