Our wrap up notes for the fifth session in our 2026 Script Essentials Webinar series Our fifth Script Essentials session was ...

“Judging a screenplay from a finished film,” an apocalyptically disheartened screenwriter once told me, “is like arriving at a murder scene and instantly deciding that the victim had it coming.” It’s ...

Our wrap up notes for the fourth session in our 2026 Script Essentials Webinar series Our fourth Script Essentials session ...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy Gary Sanchez Productions. We’re posting weekly transcripts of Season 2 of Slate’s Working podcast for Slate Plus members. This season’s host is Adam ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

Working on your novel? Hoping to finish that movie script? Help yourself along with the top writing apps we've tested based on their ease-of-use, features, and cost. I'm an expert in software and work ...