As the longest act in a three act story, the second act often becomes a daughting task for the new writer. Stalling out while writing the second act is a common problem for most new …

If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a pro reader in Hollywood, it’s that there’snothing more important than compelling your reader — if you can’t do that, your work simply won’t move up the ranks.
There …

With the success of the Apple App Store and iPhone, along with the introduction of the iPad last week, the screenwriting community can’t help but wonder when the first screenwriting app for the iPad will be …

During the past few months the scriptxray team has been busy with two major projects — building the xTeam and revamping the website.
So far, we’ve received well over 500 resumes from story analysts around the …

This is something I wish I had when first starting out in screenwriting. It’s a list of essential screenwriting books that helped clearly define the screenwriting craft to me.
Each book reveals a new approach, complete …

As scriptxray expands into new and exciting areas of the screenwriting craft, including screenplay competitions, partnerships, and more, our main focus is you. After all, if it weren’t for you, the reader, we wouldn’t be here.
We’re …

Hi – just a quick note:
I just implemented a new feature, called feedback, which will enable you, constant reader, to send scriptxray your feedback; whether it includes an idea for a post, asuggestion for the …

Check out my latest post over at Greenwriter.org!
It’s called “Writing Your Life Story? Don’t Forget the Compelling Concept” and it’s about one of the most common mistakes I see as a reader – writing a …

Everyone and their parents know that the film business is notorious for being a difficult and cruel place to work.
It’s both hard to break in and hard to stay in.
So much in fact, screenwriters have been …

I’m pretty sure most of you have either seen or heard about the exciting new community of screenwriters and producers building over Greenwriter.org – why so sure? Because not only has the org been featured on the …

Yesterday I was browsing through the hundreds of comments over at copyblogger and noticed two pretty common words appearing …

“I’m afraid”
Some screenwriters are at the point where they’re so afraid that they’ll suck at writing …

As most of you already know, Blake Snyder provided the screenwriting community with one of the most influential, non-fiction books of all time.

Why so influential?
Not only did Blake Snyder make the, oh so famous, “Blake …

If you’re anything like me, then you’re probably the type of writer that wouldn’t mind living in the any of the imaginary worlds you’ve created for the rest of your life – free to explore …

When given the opportunity to talk with a successful writer, and coax out some advice, it seems the advice given always revolves around, or at least comes back to, the same theme again and again:
“Write …

A few posts back I told you about the latest 13 screenwriting blogs I was reading-today, I’ve got 7 more screenwriting blogs for ya!
The majority of the following blogs are either blogs I’ve stumbled across …