by BlueCat | Oct 23, 2025 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says I hope I get into a huge fight today. “It would be wonderful if I experienced a painful altercation with an intimate friend later today. Wouldn’t that be awesome?” No. Most people get up and hope to have day where everything...
by BlueCat | Oct 15, 2025 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
I had my first reading of my screenplay. After the reading was over, the person who read the main character told me they didn’t know who the character was. My first reaction to that note was the actor would understand the character if they were a more...
by BlueCat | Sep 17, 2025 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Almost 20 years ago, I was hired to teach screenwriting at a university. I had been writing screenplays for 10 years, and had some success, and I wrote some articles about the craft, and this institution hired me. I saw myself as a creative, open minded, flexible...
by BlueCat | Aug 5, 2025 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Note: This essay was entirely written by the human writer named Gordy Hoffman. I run and judge a screenplay competition that receives thousands of scripts each year, and we give written notes on every submission to us. For years, we get responses from writers after...
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