Write Your Screenplay Podcast

Keeping your New Year’s resolutions as a writer begins with learning to think a little more like your characters. One of the ways that we tend to be a little bit different from our characters-- and not in a good way-- is that our characters in a movie or TV show are really good at relentlessly pursuing these hard things. That's what makes them so compelling as characters. It's what makes us fall in love with them. They are going for something they want so badly that they're making choices every day, every scene, to get them. Choices that are so big, that are so passionate, the kind of choices that we wish that we could make in our lives. A poorly written life really is just like a poorly written screenplay. Everything falls apart when our goal setting, and our pursuit of our goals, gets diffuse. Rather than feeling the drive of our passions in pursuit of the things that really matter to us, what we end up feeling is the diffusion of the many, many, many, many, many other goals and things and crap that we