WHAT BARBIE CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT SCREENWRITING

It's Barbie's world, we're just living in it! Learn how Oscar-winner Greta Gerwig created a complex tale of a "Stereotypical" Barbie who experiences an existential crisis after she steps out into the real world. It's the feel-good hit of the summer, and has plenty to teach us about how to write a movie that resonates with a wide audience.

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6 STORYTELLING LESSONS FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S OPPENHEIMER

Barbie isn't the only big hit this Summer! Christopher Nolan's biopic is an adaptation of the biography American Prometheus about J. Robert Oppenheimer, and in distilling the enormous life of a complicated figure, Nolan's epic has many screenwriting lessons for writers tackling real-life stories.

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NEW PODCAST: JOY RIDE IS A ROAD TRIP MOVIE WITH A GLOBAL SPIN

When one woman's business trip turns into a quest to find her family, things get super funny in this new comedy. Co-writers Teresa Hsiao and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong talk about how working together on animated series Family Guy helped their collaboration process, and how they they wrote a movie they never thought they could get made.

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WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE DARK COMEDY

Dark comedy is a cathartic way to help audiences deal with the absurdities of the world. We take a deep dive into stories like Breaking Bad, The White Lotus, Joker and Triangle of Sadness to learn how to mine the injustices of existence while making audiences laugh at the same time.

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Upgrade your writing game! Final Draft 12 comes with a host of features to step up your screenwriting including Night & Focus Mode to help eliminate distractions, Track Changes for an extra level of revisions, the ability to import and edit a PDF, and more. On sale now for a limited time!

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