When I started my screenwriting adventures, if someone had said to me that I needed a 'process' I would have laughed in their face and muttered about process being anti-creative. I'd had some success early in my 'career'. Two producers had vied to option my first feature script. Since I'd written that screenplay in a very idiosyncratic way, I assumed -in my arrogance- that 1. I knew a thing or two about the craft and 2. I didn't need a process. Those views lasted precisely un

Boy! Have I seen some bad screenwriting advice about character development on social media recently. Known screenwriting consultants failing to make important category distinctions and putting the cart before the horse. As usual, the names have been omitted to protect the guilty. Don't worry writers, I've got your back. Do NOT interview your characters to figure out who they are. Do NOT borrow characters from other films. Do NOT write pages and pages of detailed biography - I