All posts by: paul peditto

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” -Erma Bombeck It’s Thanksgiving week, and as with many holiday scenarios, my own Thanksgiving will be spent with family and friends. In my case, actually, ex-family. I spend the holidays with my brother’s ex-wife’s […]

  For those of you unable to make the lecture today at Chicago Screenwriters Network. I’ll post the full content shortly, but for now, let me ask you this: Do you need an agent to start your career as a writer? Short answer is… No. Do you need to submit and place well in screenwriting […]

*EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’re in Chicago next weekend, I’ll be speaking at the Chicago Screenwriter’s Network at Porkchop Restaurant, Sunday, November 4th. Check Chicago Screenwriters Network for time and location! There will also be some up-to-date information about CHAT, the micro-budget movie that will be shooting this March & April. For information, visit our Kickstarter […]

Screen Description. There’s the good kind, and the bad kind. How do you know the difference? When you jam your script up with bad detail you kill the reader’s eye. Attention wanders. The reader avoids the description, looking at the center column for the dialogue. They start thinking about grocery lists. Not good. They wonder […]

In the coming months you’ll be hearing more about CHAT, my micro-budget thriller, which we’re shooting in March/April. Seeking opinions on the script through three plus drafts (so far) leads me to the discussion of taking and giving notes. I’ve talked about this before, but perhaps my own travails will enlighten you, Good Reader. Or […]