Hi everyone! I am so excited to finally be able to reveal the release date for the brand new Write Like Rogue One course. “Write Like Rogue One” will be launching on March 6th, 2018! Click here to pre-enroll. Wow, that’s next week! We’ve been working so hard creating this course that we didn’t want to…

Hey everyone! We’re back with a brand new free lesson for “Rogue One: a Star Wars Story”! Today’s topic is that ever-so-tricky part of writing movies: exposition. How can you deliver it without smacking viewers over the head with it? How can you tell the audience important information without boring them to death? Well, “Rogue One” has a…

One of my favorite movies from Quentin Tarantino has to be “Inglourious Basterds”. It was released almost 10 years ago (!!!) and still feels just as fresh today as it did back then. For me, it’s probably his best written screenplay (although “Pulp Fiction” still remains as my favorite Tarantino flick). There is sooo much to dive into…

  Hey everyone! Like many of you, I went to see “The Last Jedi” and really really liked it! In fact, it’s my favorite Star Wars movie since “The Empire Strikes Back”. I loved how it defied expectations, introduced so many new elements and pushed the older elements in new directions. From a writing standpoint, the movie is…

As I’m sure many of you know, there’s a new movie opening up this weekend that’s not called “Ferdinand”. Yes, I’m referring to “The Last Jedi”, which is Episode 8/VIII in the main Star Wars line of movies. It’s kind of a big deal and I probably don’t have to explain what it is. In celebration of…

  Welcome to another video in the Write Like series! Since yesterday saw the arrival of the first trailer for “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, I thought we would celebrate by releasing a video lesson from the first “Jurassic World” movie. In this lesson, I talk about a tactic the writers use to make us scared…