Editing

Editing

Here again is our weekly column of screenwriting tips, which is hopefully helping you get ready to kick butt. If you prefer your screenwriting advice in video form, you can now also find us on:   Today, let’s talk about… EDITING Learning how to be critical of your own writing is paramount. Screenplays are not…

Writing Dynamic Dialogue

Writing Dynamic Dialogue

This is where you earn your money. When people read a script, they are predominantly looking at your dialogue. Oftentimes scene descriptions get glossed over or even ignored, but your dialogue will always get read. And it’s also the key element that attracts “talent” — the performers whose involvement can get your project greenlit. Fun…

SIGNED! Get Repped Now Consider Becky Fink Closes the Deal

SIGNED! Get Repped Now Consider Becky Fink Closes the Deal

  Screenwriter Becky Fink blew us all away here at Coverage Ink with her clever little holiday rom/com “Stuck on Christmas,” which she submitted to Get Repped Now in 2022. Logline:  After a one-night stand during a Christmas Eve blizzard on the way to her mother’s house, a hot mess of a woman who’s been…

Effective Character Intros

Effective Character Intros

GET REPPED NOW! is on the horizon once again (3/17 through 5/31,) and we really want you guys to do well.  Hence, we’ve decided to post screenwriting tips right here every week. Today, let’s talk about… Writing Snazzy Character Intros  Screenplay writing is all about efficiency of prose. Nobody wants to read endless chunks of…

YOU HAVE 10 PAGES

YOU HAVE 10 PAGES

  Writer, producer, CI story analyst, and former manager/development executive Mike Kuciak talks about the importance of the first 10 pages to grab a reader’s attention. By Mike Kuciak   The first ten are the most important in the screenplay, because in the bare-knuckle real world of the film industry those pages often determine if…

BEHIND THE CURTAIN – Secrets of the Screenplay Reader – a Coverage Ink Zoominar

BEHIND THE CURTAIN – Secrets of the Screenplay Reader – a Coverage Ink Zoominar

Click HERE to register for the Zoominar! If you’ve ever sent a script in anywhere, you’ve likely gotten coverage. Coverage is simply a reader report, a summary of the material, so that execs don’t have to read everything that comes in. Coverage is essential to how Hollywood works. Oftentimes (but alas, not always,) these readers…