Marilyn Horowitz

Screenwriting Classes, Coaching, and Resources

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Create Your Third Act Easily

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Happy Friday! This week, in my NYU class, we worked on using the four Magic Questions of Screenwriting to complete an outline for the feature film each of them is writing. The way this process works is that you look at what you have written for Act I, analyze the Three Levels of Conflict that […]

Spring has sprung! Get Your TV Pilot Written in Six Weeks

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Happy Friday! Spring is a great time to get some work done! I have gotten so many requests to have some kind of a class to help people write their pilots, that I am going to offer the class below. If you’re interested, please let me know. You’ll receive a 10% discount because you read […]

Structure Your Screenplay

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Happy Friday! This week I was asked to evaluate three separate projects: two television shows and a movie. Each of the producer/writers thought that the problem was either that the character should be switched to the opposite gender, more jokes were needed or better dialogue was what was needed to make their project market ready. […]

Writing Versus Acting

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Happy Friday! Now that I’ve been doing so much work in comedy and animation, I’m now working on a new animated half-hour comedy, and intend to also be the lead voice on the series. I made the mistake of thinking that since I wrote the lines it would be easy to interpret them as an […]