If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

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All television writing can be summed up in one word: economy. TV pilots must communicate the world, characters, genre, stakes, and tone to the audience—all in the span of a single episode. One of the ...

This story originally appeared in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge newsletter. Subscribe here. When I (Abē Levine) started interning here at NPR, I worked nights as a wedding server. And one thing ...

After Syd Field’s Screenplay was published in 1979, an entire cottage industry sprung up in Hollywood. Screenwriting manuals and classes, overnight gurus and other (often predatory) ...