Tom Vaughan

What is the worst thing that happens to your protagonist in your screenplay?

How bad is it? Does it force them to reexamine their view of themselves or the world around them?

If it doesn’t, it's probably not bad enough and you need to turn it up a notch.

We often talk about how to describe a character in your screenplay. But we don't always talk about when.

Tomorrow, I'll share with 15,000 subscribers this key decision that helps you evoke the movie on screen.

Interested? The link to subscribe is in the comments. 👇

Jeremy Latcham is a surprising and inspired choice.

And if you want a little insight into the man's wisdom, he has quickly removed himself from Twitter.

So much of my energy in my early writing went to the dialogue. But the main friction with a reader is the action lines.

That's where they get bored. That's where they start skipping.

I now spend FAR more time finessing action lines than I do anything else.

Stop trying to make it perfect. Don’t let a project stress you out. There will always be another.

This is especially true when you first start screenwriting.

For 99% of the people writing a screenplay right now, the job of this screenplay is to get you better for the next one.