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In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell eloquently articulates the key to success is simply a matter of putting in the hours. 10,000 hours to be specific. That’s 250, 40-hour work weeks, nearly five years of practicing a specific task over and over…
A rare interview with John Hughes from 1985. After beginning his career in advertising, Hughes would take a meager-paying writing job with National Lampoon for a nickel per word. At National Lampoon, he wrote Vacation ’58, a short story about…
Darabont knew what to leave in, what to leave out, what to add and what to alter. Stephen King depicted Red as an Irishman. Andy was a World War II vet who wore gold-rimmed spectacles and was smart enough to sneak…
There’s been a fair amount of commentary floating around the web on Disney Animation’s Chief Technical Officer, Andy Hendrickson, and his two cents on the wonderful world of story. For those of you who haven’t had the chance to read…
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is one of the better comedies on TV. It’s been called “Seinfeld on crack.” The characters will do virtually anything to get what they desire. Blackmail is never out of the question, as it taking…
Aaron Sorkin stands in the upper echelon of working screenwriters. Charlie Wilson’s War and The Social Network are phenomenal films. The upcoming Moneyball, based on the novel by Michael Lewis, looks fantastic. Sorkin was still in his twenties when he…
Final Draft contains a wide variety of templates for graphic novels, scripts, TV shows and text documents (query letters, treatments, outlines, etc). Each template contains features of each script type, with element settings, page layouts, header and footer settings, mores…
James Cameron knows how to get a story in motion. Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine, is assigned his late twin brother’s avatar. Though it’s not his body, the avatar gives him an opportunity to walk again. In Avatar‘s screenplay (available…
After seeing Chewed Up a few years back, Louis C.K. became my favorite comedian (if you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor). On the stand-up front, he’s at the top of his game. Untouchable. Unfortunately, his films, well, they…
