Advice — chris soth

This year I began a mentorship program through my website. After a few years of building up students who knew my methods and can speak my language, there's finally a tiny community of like-minded souls that believe in the way I learned to do things at USC and want to follow in my and my fellow graduates footsteps. Ever since I started a website, I've received the odd email from writers asking me to help and give guidance in the script they're writing this year, or to read their work, and this year, with the WGA strike the time had...

Acts or Reels? If you're like me, from your genesis as a screenwriter, from the very first screenwriting book you read, you were exposed to three-act structure - or from your first playwriting book, if you come from the theater. And if you're even more like me, you felt even then that something was lacking. And if you are me, you've always had a nagging feeling there must be a better approach to story out there. Three acts? The first thirty or so pages in length, what your screenwriting book called Act One, is a long way to go without...