In confidence, screenwriter to screenwriter, writing a satisfying ending for a feature screenplay is hard isn’t it? Your audience won’t know how or why -that’s your job- but they definitely know when you’ve let them down at the end of the film. A few years back I watched an indie feature written and directed by a friend -names have been removed to protect the innocent- and though in many ways it was very accomplished, throughout the film I remember repeatedly asking myself t

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