CS Weekly Archive > Son of a Pitch
A weekly tutorial on how to write a script. Each week deals with a different element of creating a script, with the ultimate goal to provide a step-by-step instruction manual for new writers. The guide for this is a writer just diving into screenwriting himself, who asks the pros questions any new screenwriter would have about this brave new world.

By DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON

08/12/04—Writing Bad (But Not Badly) Part One: Three Shades of Mean

08/05/04 — Two Questions

05/20/04 — Breaking the Story Without Breaking the Story

05/13/04 — How Many Screenwriters Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

05/06/04 — Good Old-fashioned Book Learnin'

04/29/04 — Four Thoughts for the Road

04/22/04 — Write, Now

04/15/04 — Is a Dream a Lie that Don't Come True? (by Jim Mercurio)

04/08/04 — Writing Your Screenplay and Your Day-to-Day Life (by Jim Mercurio)

04/01/04 — Finding your Assets on the Road to El Dorado

03/25/04 — What a Screenplay Is -- and Isn't

03/18/04 — Why Screenwriting?

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Son of a Pitch
A weekly tutorial on how to write a script. Each week deals with a different element of creating a script, with the ultimate goal to provide a step-by-step instruction manual for new writers. The guide for this is a writer just diving into screenwriting himself, who asks the pros questions any new screenwriter would have about this brave new world. > VIEW ARCHIVE

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