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Process

How to give good notes when you’re not skilled at giving notes.
Process

How to give good notes when you’re not skilled at giving notes.

An unfinished screenplay invites notes, but your “notes” aren’t necessarily what a screenplay needs.
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Tom Vaughan
The Rules of Screenwriting.
Process

The Rules of Screenwriting.

Turns out, most dumb rules have something useful behind them.
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Tom Vaughan
How do you want the audience to feel at the end?
Emotion

How do you want the audience to feel at the end?

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
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Tom Vaughan
Write your Spec. But first, write your treatment.
Process

Write your Spec. But first, write your treatment.

I used to hate treatments. Now it's an immensely valuable part of my process.
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Tom Vaughan
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