“Sex sells” is a tried and true marketing mantra. Nothing captures attention like some hanky-panky. But how to do it well is a serious concern for a writer. A badly written sex scene can ruin an ...

At the Motion Picture and Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills over the weekend, a group of mostly elder writers gathered in a brightly-lit room to shed light on a taboo topic: how to write good ...

Tim Robinson's new HBO series The Chair Company is getting praise for a lot of reasons. It's a surprising cringe comedy with ...

Why is there explicit sex in my new book? Because I’m a feminist. Under A Pole Star, my third book, is a novel about late 19th century arctic explorers that features, alongside ice, ambition and ...

All television writing can be summed up in one word: economy. TV pilots must communicate the world, characters, genre, stakes, and tone to the audience—all in the span of a single episode. One of the ...

In the scene, Kate comes back to her crappy apartment, made crappier from a fire-bombing by the tracksuit mafia bros. She finds Yelena waiting for her. Yelena asks her where Clint Barton (Jeremy ...

While people have all sorts of sexual fantasies, one woman perhaps explores them more than most people, as she dedicates her career to bringing people's sauciest desires to life. Jaimee Bell, 33, ...

Nicole Kidman is no stranger to sex scenes in films. The actor has gotten intimate a few times with her co-stars throughout her prestigious filmography. But there was one moment earlier in Kidman’s ...

Forget the giant, rotating spaceships or gargantuan red mountains of Mars. The hardest scene to write in Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” was set inside a conference room, on Earth. Screenwriter Drew ...