Update: If you’re one of many who feel Twilight was one of the best stories ever to pass your eyes, ears, and heart – especially with that dreamy Edward character – since Harry Potter, Romeo and Juliet, or any other brilliant story for that matter, check out this homage to Edward Cullen – the hundred and eight-year-old heartthrob who WAS in love with 17 year-old-Bella … until he met someone cooler – Buffy.
Is it stranger that Edward and Buffy actually make a more powerful couple in the forbidden love genre as vampire / …

If you’re interested in sharing your experiences as an aspiring screenwriter with ScriptXRay and its community, check out the POV portion of the site.
The POV was created so aspiring screenwriters could learn what other aspiring screenwriters are doing to reach their dreams.
If you’d like to contribute but you aren’t sure what to write, consider these basic starter ideas:
1. Your experience moving to LA
2. The challenge of finding time to write
3. Your challenges as a writer with a day job
4. Your search for your next big idea
5. Researching your screenplay subject
Once …

Character names, in my opinion, are one of the most difficult challenges of creating characters for a screenplay.
At the moment, I have mixed feelings about naming characters. One: I feel that no matter what you name your character, you can trigger the audience’s memory by branding your character in a way … through action and the actual speaking of your character’s name – more specifically, the repetition of speaking your characters name.
Take Fight Club for example – the two character names you remember most from that movie don’t even belong …

Last night was pretty much like any other night – I left the office, stopped by the house for my things, went out to dinner, and ended up at my daily writing spot, Barnes & Noble, – yet there was something different. It wasn’t my vanilla latte with super-foam; it wasn’t the music; it wasn’t the books …
I realized the screenplay I’m writing might actually be two separate stories.
At first, this thought was a bit scary. When you realize you might be working on two different stories at the same …

Here’s a quick list of 5 resources I find helpful or fun as an aspiring screenwriter. I may have mentioned a few in the past, and I probably mention them again in the future — bookmark these asap!
1. JohnAugust.com – a great place for aspiring screenwriters interested in hearing what it’s like in Hollywood as a pro screenwriter.
2. WordPlay – a repository full of long posts mostly from Terry Rossio of the Terry and Ted writing team behind such films as Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, Aladdin, and tumble more …