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 ...

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 ...

Like film, television comes in a variety of different genres— but the two core types are drama and comedy. Though this has been changing recently, most dramas, whether “prestige” or “procedural,” have ...

This story originally appeared in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge newsletter. Subscribe here. When I (Abē Levine) started interning here at NPR, I worked nights as a wedding server. And one thing ...

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

Our monkey minds (as my meditation teacher says) are constantly chattering. Sometimes we hear them loud and clear. Other times, they are in the background. There are times that the chatter is ...

Scottish writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ reveals her shock when she learned of Sam Mendes’ plans for his World War I epic '1917' and how they crafted the screenplay. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent I ...

Have you ever watched a holiday rom-com on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime — or any of the other many networks and streamers that now air them — and thought, “I could write that”? It’s harder than you ...

The Writers Guild of America has proposed allowing artificial intelligence to write scripts, as long as it does not affect writers’ credits or residuals. The guild had previously indicated that it ...