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 ...

From the basics of slug lines and dialogue to proper font and margin sizes, here’s how to write a screenplay that looks professional. How to Format a Script (with Examples) | Backstage Customers ...

So to help launch Variety‘s new “Hollywood How-To” video series on writing a script, we asked Lindelof to talk through some of his process as a television writer. Here’s what he had to say. 1.

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck ...

Two of the best films of the season, The Lunchbox and The Good Road, emerged from creative incubators at a script lab. For an inexperienced scriptwriter, the mentoring these labs offer is ...

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 ...