About Screenwriter's Edge

Most systems of story, however they are branded, circle the same mechanism.

Stories move when decisions carry consequence.
When pressure narrows options.
When something changes that cannot be undone.

The problem is rarely imagination.
More often, it is softness: a decision that preserves options, a conflict that resets, an ending that arrives before the cost has fully landed.

Screenwriter’s Edge examines story at that level.

Not as formula.
Not as template.
Not as doctrine.
As craft.

The focus is practical. Lessons are structured. Questions are direct. The aim is not to produce a particular style of script, but to help writers see where escalation strengthens, where it falters, and where consequence fails to land.

About Terry Dray

Screenwriter’s Edge is led by Terry Dray.

An honours graduate in filmmaking and a Master’s graduate in screenwriting, he has worked across production, performance, and development for more than three decades. From kitchens and construction to theatre and film sets, the through-line has remained the same: craft improves when it is shared plainly.

The approach here is measured and diagnostic.

Look closely at the decision.
Follow the consequence.
See what changes.

That is the work.

A Working Environment

Screenwriter’s Edge functions as a working environment rather than a content stream.

Revenue from courses and script development is reinvested into ongoing development and the production of new short films. The intention is simple: the ideas explored here should continue to be tested in practice, through writing and filmmaking, rather than remaining protected by theory.

Stories reveal themselves under pressure.

The work here is learning how to see it.