Should you write a miniseries instead of a movie?
"Think of it this way: You can tell any movie as a TV miniseries." — Script Doctor Peter Russell
'If you do that in a screenplay, it's like neon flashing amateur, amateur, amateur!'
Richard Walter, chairman of UCLA's renowned graduate screenwriting program, talks about how screenwriters are often steered toward overly...
Peter Russell talks "core wounds"
Hollywood script doctor Peter Russell, one of my absolute favorite voices on screenwriting, talks about the importance of giving your...
UCLA, USC and La La Land
I visited UCLA yesterday, then got a guided tour of USC today by my former sports writer — and USC grad — Shotgun Spratling. Below is a...