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Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

Writing for an animated film is like painting on an infinite canvas—there are literally no bounds. You don’t have to worry about expensive or dangerous stunts, keeping your sets small for the sake of ...

Your screenplay lives or dies by its inciting incident, which paves the way for all of the conflict in your story to unfold. The inciting incident also establishes your main character’s goals and, ...

Tom Smith reports back from the recent event at Live Theatre in Newcastle and shares writing advice and tips that he picked up from the weekend. My name is Tom Smith and I’m a working-class ...