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If your script isn’t landing, it’s rarely because the ideas aren’t there.
More often, something stops escalating. A decision doesn’t carry enough consequence.
An ending arrives before something irreversible has occurred.
Screenwriter’s Edge exists to to help you see where that happens — and how to correct it.
For writers and filmmakers who want clarity in craft.
When a Script Doesn't Hold
You've rewritten it more than once.
The characters feel real.
The world makes Sense
But something flattens before it should. Conflict resets. Dialogue fills space but changes little. A choice is made, but it doesn’t close a door.
If nothing changes that cannot be undone, the story drifts.
What We Focus On
Stories move when decisions carry consequence.
When a choice reduces options.
When a cost cannot be recovered.
When something gives – and does not return.
That’s where tension lives.
That’s where endings earn their weight.
Screenwriter’s Edge approaches craft from that standpoint. Calmly, practically, without formula or dogma.
Three Ways To Work
Learn
Learn
Structured courses in screenwriting and filmmaking craft. Clear lessons. Practical application. No Templates.
Refine
Refine
Structural Case Review – a careful, limited-capacity reading of your script. Focused on where change takes hold, and where it does not.
Two scripts per month. Considered response.
About
Screenwriter’s Edge is led by Terry Dray.
An honours graduate in filmmaking and Master’s graduate in screenwriting, he has worked across production, performance, and development for over three decades.
The focus here is simple: clarity in craft.
Serious about improving your work?
Start with the foundation course, or apply for a Structural Case Review.
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