Are you a screenwriting student? See Spec Script Writing: An Annotated Example for pointers on format and writing style.
Tips on writing the spec script (14 minute video):
My last screenwriting column was at Screenwriters Utopia (see below).
Note: these essays, to which I retain copyright, originally appeared on the Cyber Film School website.
Dress Rehearsals: the Education of a Marginal Writer, a memoir.
Oregon Fever: An Anthology of Northwest Writing, 1965-1982 (Editor)
Creativity. Faith. Impotence. And Other Essays.
NEW: A memoir of the relationship between my life and my writing: Whole Cloth: the fabric of literature. How does a writer's experience inform his work? A full career exposed.