In the past few years, I have worked on multiple coming-of-age films set in the late 90s. I thought it was a wave of nostalgia, but today a director told me: it is not nostalgia; that is the last time in history when you can set a human plot about teenagers without half of it dealing with cellphones or social media.
Seeing it that way, it is rather sad.
Trusted to Write for the Greatest Stars of the Silent Screen: The Screenwriting Career of Ruth Cummings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2026
Though born in 1894 in Washington, D.C., the family business was theatre, not the politics of President Grover Cleveland’s administration. With an actor for a father - Henry Dupree Sinclair – the future Ruth Sinclair would also begin her career on the stage before turning to film, where she wrote for silent stars such as Lillian Gish, Greta Garbo, and Joan Crawford.
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https://rosannewelch.com/2026/01/27/scriptmag-202601/
#script #screenwriting #history #women #writing #writer #column #essay #film #movies #tv
Ok, not so much on the high seas as in a New York apartment, but there are hijinks! Follow the antics of the ghost of a bumbling pirate captain as he annoys a New York couple after they buy the cursed anchor from his sunken ship.
Listen now: https://bit.ly/3LKfcCg
#AlmostPlausible #Anchor #Hijinks #Ghost #Pirate #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie
Are we curing cancer?
Is entertainment a frivolous pursuit, or does it make a difference in people's lives beyond making them smile? Happiness is important! Even so, our work goes a lot deeper.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tIKPFel8YC8 #writing #film #screenwriting #filmmaking #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky
hi #screenwriting friends! if you are interested in getting some FREE script notes on your latest feature or TV pilot, check out the script reports i'm currently offering on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/smarshwrites/shop
This isn't a career.
Showbusiness careers don't progress based on the growth of our experience, per se. Instead, they reflect our impact on the people around us.
https://youtube.com/shorts/oXTKtZyjeWA #filmmaking #film #screenwriting #writing #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky
One of the greatest (anglo American) TV sitcom pilots of all time is the first episode of Cheers.
It still stands up.
It is noteworthy for effectively introducing an entire ensemble cast by giving each character their own "moment", and also for motivated character entrances and exits.
If you write for TV, film, theatre, or other forms of performance, it's worth studying the script.
One of the all-time great introductions of a character in TV is for President Jeb Bartlett in the pilot episode of The West Wing.
It's a great example what George Bernard Shaw called a "star entrance". (Did I get that right? It's been a while and I'm going by memory.)
That pilot script is an advanced class in TV writing / writing for performance / storytelling. 1/n
One of the all-time great introductions of a character in film is for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
It's handled just as elegantly in the screenplay as in the film.
If you're a filmmaker, screenwriter, or a fiction writer in any medium, both the film and the script is worth studying.
Ambiguity isn’t depth, and weirdness isn’t a substitute for writing. On Kinds of Kindness, Bugonia, and the cult of prestige nonsense. Being bizarre on purpose is not the same thing as having something to say.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #Art #Cinema #Absurdism #Screenwriting #Storytelling #Narrative #YorgosLanthimos #KindsOfKindness #Bugonia #EmmaStone #JessePlemons
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/dead-ends-and-empty-vignettes-yorgos-lanthimoss-crisis-of-discipline/
Be necessary.
What makes people show up for you? Is getting people interested in what you have to offer going to be enough?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Gfq-HIDHhPA #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky #film #filmmaking #writing #screenwriting
Rosanne Presents “Creative Play #8: Emotional Monologues Written By A Few Accomplished Female Television Writers” – Screenwriting Research Network
I was pleased to be asked to host a session of the Creative Play Working Group of the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN), chaired by Professor Chris Neilan of Edinburgh Napier University.
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https://rosannewelch.com/2026/01/24/creative-play-8/
#write #writing #writer #screenwriting #screenwriter #tv #television #film #women #video #speaking
How do we get people to show up?
Hollywood loves to think of an audience as something you can tap into, by making the right kind of content. It's not. An audience is something you have to build.
https://youtube.com/shorts/dQ7VxEJNJPc #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky #screenwriting #film #filmmaking #writing
Screenwriting is about empowering actors, rather than asking them to sell our ideas.
https://youtube.com/shorts/8ytlaSPpj24?feature=share #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky #filmmaking #screenwriting #film #writing
🚀 Đã ra mắt app viết kịch bản miễn phí, giúp định dạng dễ dàng. Hiện có trên Microsoft Store và sẽ mở rộng sang các nền tảng khác. Mời các nhà viết kịch bản thử và cho phản hồi! #Screenwriting #App #Free #Write #ỨngDụng #ViếtKịchBản #PhảnHồi
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1qjuht6/i_built_a_simple_free_screen_writing_app_and/
Jean Reno has been in lots of stuff recently! For example, he was in... *checks notes* Die Hart? Oh how the mighty have fallen.
While Emily is away, the boys will play. Mike and Ethan from The Other Half podcast join Thomas and Shep for a story about a woman who discovers a talking carrot in her fridge. Oh, and the carrot is French.
Listen now: https://bit.ly/49l9PBs
#AlmostPlausible #Carrots #JeanReno #Godzilla #TheOtherHalf #Podcast #Comedy #Improv #Screenwriting #Movie
Fail upwards.
If showpeople stay focused on the simple work of building strength in our craft and strength in our community, then our success becomes sustainable.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o10OjdBcRZY #film #filmmaking #writing #screenwriting #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky
A #writing example - #screenwriting in this case.
So a kid is found wandering in the woods with no memory. He's taken to a doctor for an exam, and...
(You only need to watch the first 16 seconds of this video.)
1/x
What could go wrong?
Every risk-based business venture is defined by our efforts to manage the risks involved. In showbusiness, there's always two fundamental risks that we need to account for.
https://youtube.com/shorts/5FppDG2hlYo #scriptsky #filmsky #writersky #film #writing #filmmaking #screenwriting
Creative Conversations: Rachelle Atalla
20 January, University of Glasgow & online – free
Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer & screenwriter. Her first novel, THE PHARMACIST, is now in development for film with Compact Pictures & the BFI. THIRSTY ANIMALS is her second novel & has been optioned by STV. Her most recent book is THE SALT FLATS
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-rachelle-atalla-tickets-1977613863301
#Scottish #literature #writing #screenwriting #dystopia #dystopianfiction
