Category: Story Q&A
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Story Inspiration from Breaking Science
The wonderful folks who run Heliosphere invited me to moderate and participate in several panels for their conference. One of the panels was Story Inspiration from Breaking Science. The panel included Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Dr. James Prego, and Sarena Strauss. We started out hypothesizing from various abstracts we’d come across. We — mostly me — got a bit…
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Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
Please welcome longtime Writer Unboxed community member Lancelot Schaubert back as our guest today! Lance is the author of the novel Bell Hammers. “… Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
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Story Q&A: When should budget limit my film’s genre?
One of the questions that has come up in Free Lance Friday was posed by a screenwriter and filmmaker: when should my budget limit my story? The answer is either always or never, but not both. First, “never.” Your budget, as a screenwriter, should never limit your story when you write to sell your screenplay.…