1. HOW TO WRITE HORROR FOR TV. (A thread!) I've said a lot of things on the topic of scary movies, but what about scary TV shows? For the most part, everything I've posted about movies carries over, the obvious difference with TV is how you use TIME to your advantage.— Seth M Sherwood (@SethMSherwood) February 18, 2023

1. advance the plot; 2. deepen a character; 3. exemplify the genre (comedy- get a laugh; horror- have a scare, etc.); 4. build the world. So a scene between people, existing as people, int he world they live in, INSIDE your story, is legit even if there's not a plot point. BUT--— Seth Sherwood (@SethMSherwood) February 4, 2023

TEN TIPS TO BECOMING THE MASTER OF SCREENPLAY:1. Stop opening your screenplay with your character staring at themselves in the mirror, & popping a bottle of pills, “dry”. No matter how well you write your version of it, it has been done before. This goes for alarm-clocks, too. pic.twitter.com/5cJm92KrYz— Spyder Dobrofsky goes to Moonscar Island🧟‍♂️ (@spyderdobro) December 2, 2022

If you've got a great spec, treat it that way. Get it to the person or people who are closest to producers and execs and agents and managers––ideally people who like you and want to help get your great script the attention it deserves. 14/18— Jonathon E. Stewart (@JEStew3) November 21, 2022

If you want to know whether your scene is bland visual description rather than compelling visual storytelling, make a list of the verbs you've chosenOpens, enters, looks, uses, takes, notices, sees, walks, sits...these are RED FLAGS because they're emotionless observations— The Process of Screenwriting by Clive Frayne (@clivefrayne) November 12, 2022

Sometimes when I don't know how to approach a scene, I think of the absolute worst thing I could write — the worst bit of dialogue, the worst thing a character could do next — and it often cracks me up. Then I think, well, anything is better than that, and suddenly it's easier.— Anna Klassen (@AnnaJKlassen) October 4, 2022