All posts by: paul peditto

*EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’re in Chicago next weekend, I’ll be speaking at the Chicago Screenwriter’s Network at Porkchop Restaurant, Sunday, November 4th. Check Chicago Screenwriters Network for time and location! There will also be some up-to-date information about CHAT, the micro-budget movie that will be shooting this March & April. For information, visit our Kickstarter […]

Screen Description. There’s the good kind, and the bad kind. How do you know the difference? When you jam your script up with bad detail you kill the reader’s eye. Attention wanders. The reader avoids the description, looking at the center column for the dialogue. They start thinking about grocery lists. Not good. They wonder […]

In the coming months you’ll be hearing more about CHAT, my micro-budget thriller, which we’re shooting in March/April. Seeking opinions on the script through three plus drafts (so far) leads me to the discussion of taking and giving notes. I’ve talked about this before, but perhaps my own travails will enlighten you, Good Reader. Or […]

Should you ever do it? C’mon… seriously? The answer is FUCK yeah. Let me bow to my betters, first some thoughts on the subject by Jim Jarmusch, appropriately stolen/borrowed from a pal’s Facebook entry: Please understand, I’m not advocating plagiarism. Plagiarists are stunningly UN-original. I’m advocating, like Jarmusch, something more akin to re-interpretation. Old school […]