Heart, Head and Hand: Do You Write With All Three?
"Screenwriting, a lot of it – when you’re in the weeds trying to figure it out – is mathematical. It’s about solving puzzles." Rob Edwards.
By Matthew Wade Reynolds. Once upon a time, a young aspiring writer fresh out of college could write a letter to a television producer, asking for advice. Not only would he hear back, but he might just have lunch waiting for him at a venerable Los Angeles deli, with a handful of the producer’s friends […]
How do you convert an Oscar-winning short into a feature?
Shawn Christensen discusses his award-winning short Curfew, and the process of turning it into the full length film Before I Disappear.
By Matthew Wade Reynolds. Once you’re in, you’re in, right? Not in Hollywood. Even with five spec screenplay sales under his belt, Shawn Christensen was getting the cold shoulder from the studio system: development hell, rewrites, and feeling like a stranger at his own movie premiere. But it wasn’t a Hollywood legend, wise guru or […]
How Z Nation Writer Held the Zucker Brothers to Ransom
An interview with veteran writer, producer and showrunner Karl Shaefer.
By Matthew Reynolds. Karl Schaefer may not be a household name, but the veteran writer, producer and showrunner’s moniker has graced the screens of countless households for more than 20 years, from his (tragically) short-lived cult creation Eerie, Indiana to genre favorites The Dead Zone, Eureka and Ghost Whisperer. Schaefer’s latest is the post-apocalyptic thriller […]
