If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

Variety’s new weekly series, “Hollywood How-To,” will tackle all things writing, with conversations about everything from crafting characters to navigating the writer’s room. There are few writers ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...