Elsie Hedgspeth & Andrew Stengele talk to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about Pens to Lens screenwriting competition.

In a world where people tell their stories on film from ideas that start on paper, there are two powerful platforms that provide all the tools budding screenwriters need: Final Draft and Celtx. One is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. If you were paying attention to Hollywood, the summer of ...

Each fall, students squeeze between tables at the first Student Organization Fair of the year, listening to pitches from Northwestern’s prestigious clubs with claims of famous alumni and decades of ...

The Drexel Westphal Screenwriting & Playwriting Program guides emerging artists in their pursuit of a career writing for the stage or screen. Our discipline is about writing for production – rather ...

George Lucas defied many of the commandments of screenwriting, so why is the Star Wars saga so memorable? We ask a script expert. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm ...

There is a lot of screenwriting advice out there. If you've ever been in a writing class, you've probably been given Save the Cat by Blake Snyder or Screenplay by Syd Field. And these are good ...

This article originally appeared in the July 1991 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Several years ago my five-year-old daughter bounced into my study ...