Deep dives into modern screenwriting, visual storytelling, and how AI is reshaping the creative process.
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Branching narrative isn’t choose-your-own-adventure, it’s a story system. How to design state, pillar choices, reconvergence, and recognition so players feel agency without the script becoming unmaintainable.
Writing for Video Games: Branching Narratives
The climax of a courtroom drama isn’t the speech, it’s the verdict. How to build the trial first, earn the closing argument, and make the big moment land like a conclusion, not a lecture.
Writing the "Big Speech": Courtroom Dramas
The training montage isn’t dead, it’s loaded with expectation. How to use it with intention: tie every beat to the climax, show cost and failure, and make it earn its place so it lands like a bridge, not a punchline.
The "Training Montage" in 2026: Cliché or Classic?
Intimate scenes on the page need to serve the story and the room. How to write for clarity and safety: story beats, tone, level of explicitness, and leaving choreography to collaboration with coordinators and actors.
Writing Intimacy: Working with Intimacy Coordinators in Mind
Is your pilot selling a story or a machine? How to design a first episode that makes a clear promise about your show’s engine, case-of-the-week, long-arc, or a hybrid that actually works.
Writing the TV Pilot: Procedural vs. Serialized (And What Your First Hour Really Has to Prove)
Winning or losing is the least interesting question. How to build sports stories where the season forces your underdog to change, not just train.
Writing Sports Movies: The Underdog Arc That Actually Hurts
The vault isn’t Act Three’s job; it’s Act One’s consequence. Why crew assembly is your real first act and how to design specialists, motives, and fractures that make the heist inevitable.
The Heist Movie Structure: Assembling the Crew
Too modern and it’s fake, too accurate and it’s dead. How to write period dialogue that feels true to the era, sharp on the page, and playable for actors.
Writing Period Dramas: Dialogue vs. Accuracy (Without Sounding Like a Museum Audio Guide)