Consider the wonderful opportunities your supporting characters provide, and turn your script from average to thoroughly entertaining remarkably quickly!

Your opening pages send all sorts of messages that transcend the actual story you are telling. They are your introduction, your initial handshake, your non-verbal communication that you are a writer to be taken seriously.

Co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn discuss how the initially creatively linked up, the importance of a balanced writers’ room, drawing from real-life fears and cases, and more!

Nikki Toscano discusses the adaptation and seamless collaborative process with author and co-creator Liz Moore, why she was drawn to lead character Mickey’s voice and her unreliable narration, the importance of balancing character drama and the murder mystery, ensuring each twist served a larger narrative purpose. And the importance of portraying the Kensington community authentically, involving local advisors and casting.

What if you have 40 Thieves robbing passengers on an express train or a teacher with 40 Students or an office with 40 Executives? How to create distinctive minor character roles. From Weapons For Weirdos to “Warriors” Theory to creating “spear carrier” characters who don’t feel like a number.

Do you want to get to know a storyteller? Have a look at their work. It reflects their inner landscape and reveals how they experience life—sometimes in very concealed ways. Author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and creative coach Mario O. Moreno shares his journey navigating the industry, and getting back to the essence of storytelling.

Screenwriter Julia Fisher Farbman and director Ami Canaan Mann share how they focused on a key part of Audrey Evans’s remarkable life to portray the whole.

Filmmaker Tracie Laymon discusses being inspired by her personal journey of healing and self-discovery and framing it as a narrative, the transformative power of kindness, and her commitment to telling authentic and uplifting stories.

When writing the Sci-Fi script, audiences are looking for entertaining stories with interesting, developed characters that take them out of this world and into another.

Learn the foundational principles of writing crime, how to authenticate your forensics while keeping it entertaining, how to take true, dramatic stories and make them your own, how to set a crime scene, and more!