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Creating Characters

Quest for a Female Story Model

By Evan Smith
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Screenwriter Interviews

How Screenwriters Julian Higgins and Shaye Ogbonna Created Nuance and Complexity in 'God's Country'

By Sadie Dean
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Film Festivals

Sundance Film Festival 2022 – Day Four: Women at the Center

By Sadie Dean
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Writing Inspiration

In The Company of (Historical) Women, Part 2

By Devon Ellington
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Writing Inspiration

The Company of (Historical) Women, Part 1

By Devon Ellington
Tom Stempel examines the blockbusters, Incredibles 2, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Year of the Spectacular Men, and Let the Sunshine In, to showcase the screenwriters' choices for their female characters.
Screenwriting How-To Articles

UNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING: Blockbusters and Women

By Tom Stempel
Amy Adams (right) as Louise Banks in ARRIVAL by Paramount Pictures. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs
Screenwriting How-To Articles

What Makes a "Strong" Female Character?

By Muriel Stockdale
Before you submit your script for coverage or critique, make sure your work is void of things that annoy script readers! Professional script reader, Brian O'Malley, shares insights into things script readers hate to see in a screenplay.
Screenwriting How-To Articles

20 Little Things That Make Script Readers Hate Your Screenplay

By Brian O'Malley
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

STORY BROADS: How to Explore Female Character Bias to Transform Your Story

By Anne-Cecile Ville
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

Atomic Blonde: Atomic Failure or Atomic Success?

By Sammy Montana
A common gripe among a lot of actresses is that they don’t find many strong female roles in the scripts they’re given, and so sometimes they seek out roles written for men.
Creating Characters

Women Are People, Too: 6 Ways to Write Better Female Characters

By Cameron Chapman
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

IT DEPENDS: How the Bechdel Test Should Be Used

By Christopher Schiller
BEHIND THE LINES WITH DR: Writing Female Characters - She Said; She Said by Doug RIchardson | Script Magazine #scriptchat #screenwriting
Screenwriting How-To Articles

BEHIND THE LINES WITH DR: Writing Female Characters - She Said; She Said.

By Doug Richardson
FEMALE PROTAGONISTS: Whoa, Man... You're Writing Her All Wrong! by Robert Piluso
Screenwriting How-To Articles

FEMALE PROTAGONISTS: Whoa, Man... You're Writing Her All Wrong!

By Robert Piluso
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

INNER DRIVES: What's My Character Motivation? "Marilyns, Moms, Muses"

By Pamela Jaye Smith
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

Screenwriting Website of the Week: The Bitch Pack

By Script Magazine
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

The Taming of the Shrew: Writing Female Characters & Archetypes

By Danny Manus
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Screenwriting How-To Articles

Specs & The City: Female Characters and... Pretty Much Every Movie Ever

By Brad Johnson