write like a pro if you want to be a pro
Author and award winning screenwriter Max Adams talks screenwriting — and about some of the more than wrong advice you’ll find online and circulating in the industry.
screenwriting
eyccp student shorts showcase sept 27!
Check out the very cool trailer for Elevator, written by my student Laila Royster. Elevator will be showing at the Sept 27 2023 red carpet student film showcase (6-9 PM) in San Antonio Texas — hosted by Alamo City Studios showcasing 10 students’ short films from the 2023 Eastside Youth Content Creators Program (EYCCP) at […]
screenwriting labs are back!
Oyez, Saturday screenwriting labs with yours truly, author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams, are back. Yay! The Logline Lab: Saturday September 23rd 2023 8 PM ET on Zoom The Lookbook Lab: Saturday September 30th 2023 8 PM on Zoom These are Saturday weekend labs on Zoom. You want those. Hit ’em!
sag-aftra on strike!
So SAG-AFTRA has joined the picket lines. There are only roughly 11,000 writers. There are roughly 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members. The strike lines just got much bigger. I’m sort of existential-crises-brain-frozen right now watching the general fuckery of the AMPTP and studios during the strike. But Trae Crowder isn’t. Yay! Watch.
rumors of my demise are premature
You have been wondering where I am, right? I did not mean to go MIA on you all. I have been teaching with the Eastside Youth Content Creators Program here in San Antonio. EYCCP! Yay! Classes start early in the morning which is normal for other people but not for vampires like me and I […]
strike!
Well. We are on strike. When I say we, that is WGA as in Writers Guild of America writers. [Screenwriters are union labor. You knew that, right?] Wall Street is never going to get tired of getting rich on talents’ back. Screenwriters shouldn’t have to drive Ubers in off hours to put food on the […]
Oh Sweet Jesus
I have totally been neglecting you! Sorry about that. WordPress keeps making things weird. Which makes it harder and harder to show up here. But, let’s do this: AFW [that’s my school, students and workshoppers) movers and shakers have been hitting it. Yay! January classes are coming up: 5150 the online screenwriting workshop is full, […]
may writing frenzy!
What’s up in May? Bunches. For one thing, we’ll find out whether the WGA and AMPTP come to an agreement on contracts or don’t — if they don’t, screenwriters are going on strike on May 2. That has me a little tense. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition deadline hits May 1. Ahhh! Did […]
classes and evil lucre and such
As I type this there are only 9 seats left in Mastering Story Momentum. You might want to hit that before it’s full. Whut? Exactly. Smooches.
september!
September is mildly crazed because I have two weeks off in late August early September between AFW classes to do just about everything I don’t have time to do while AFW classes are in session. So, it’s time off — with no time off. This is not a bad thing. Part of what […]