I’ve lived most of my life in the Los Angeles area, and although L.A. is a sprawling diverse megalopolis, it’s also an insular industry town, with the industry in question being what we Angelenos ...

What do you do with a case full of strange creatures in a new place? Misplace it, of course! At least that is what Newt Scamander does in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” by J.K. Rowling. If ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...