FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

Here’s a good question and answer session from Joe Eszterhas, writer of Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct and many others. Watch it here.

Gritty and realistic, but sometimes overly melodramatic. Part of the problem with this film is it hardly gives you a chance to catch your breath. There’s quite a number of action sequences that exist solely for action’s sake. I realize its about war and the atrocities that accompany it, but we must also be given [...]

This film offers a brief glimpse into what it’s like to be homeless, and to slowly lose everything that means anything to you, including your only true friend. A dog by your side can be your only link to normalcy. I never really got why homeless people have dogs, and now I get it. What [...]

From ScreenwritingU.com: “It’s going to happen to you. When you get to a certain point in your writing, you’ll get requests to work on spec. It is just a natural part of your development as a screenwriter. Your writing has become good enough that some small producers want to work with you. Very likely, they’ll [...]

Over the past couple of days, I made some really good progress in researching my next screenplay. I took some downtime on the work front to do a hell of a lot of reading. I have to also thank my wife for helping me see the forest for the trees. I was a little stuck, [...]

The 2010 Superchannel Super Catalyst Emerging Screenwriter competition received 204 entries this year, and four winners will be announced at the end of February. Good luck to everyone who entered.