When you watch a lot of film and television, you begin to sense a pattern. In the beginning, you meet characters. In the middle, you see them struggle. At the end, you watch as they succeed or fail.

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 ...

How do you write a movie script? I want to write and sell a movie script. I’ve noticed that you sometimes write short plays in your advice columns. Is it the same process? I want to write and sell a ...

Writing for an animated film is like painting on an infinite canvas—there are literally no bounds. You don’t have to worry about expensive or dangerous stunts, keeping your sets small for the sake of ...

Auditions -- "Love, Loss & What I Wore," NWA Theatre Collective, 7 p.m. March 11, 477 W. Spring St. in Fayetteville. tinyurl.com/llwiw-auditions. It's An Eclipse ...

If you've ever wanted to take an idea and develop it into a story for a novel, short story, or screenplay, this event is for you. Steve Scaffidi, a writer, producer and director for film and ...

The Writers Guild of America has proposed allowing artificial intelligence to write scripts, as long as it does not affect writers’ credits or residuals. The guild had previously indicated that it ...

While WGA is looking at ways to use AI as a tool, the proposal is meant to protect human writers, and WGA says it's opposed to scripts written entirely by AI. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes As ...

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos isn’t getting too worried about the rise of artificial intelligence in Hollywood. During a recent interview with The New York Times, Sarandos said he doubts AI platforms ...