How to Use screenwriting in a Sentence

screenwriting

noun

• Maybe screenwriting was a detour on the road to event planning.
  — Emily Winter, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
• Some films today drop more than 100 f-bombs, a sure sign of lazy screenwriting.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2026
• Richards branched out into screenwriting and producing.
  — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
• But maybe Wilson’s most pointed barbs are reserved for Nolan’s screenwriting.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2026
• People like to knock Nolan’s screenwriting, which is often equated with dialogue.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2026
• Thompson is also the only person to win Oscars for acting and screenwriting.
  — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
• Ratajkowski is attached to star with that project representing her screenwriting debut.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 July 2026
• Prior to his screenwriting career, Delahaye was widely read as a culture writer and reporter.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2026
• Career Poetry, prose, screenwriting—Karabash’s writing repertoire spans a wide range.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
• What Roth, and his longtime screenwriting partner Noah Belson have concocted is an unfleshed-out idea that is just left with the flesh.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026
• And then inside it, Matt Damon, an Oscar winner for screenwriting but never a statue for his acting, is at the forefront.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 July 2026
• Miller’s first screenwriting credit, per IMDb, was on 1977’s The Black Pearl.
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
• The topic came up Sunday on the Bill Simmons Podcast when Sheridan explained his screenwriting work.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
• Chipman used recurring Tuesday gatherings to push a personal screenwriting project forward.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
• Blaustein taught screenwriting as a full-time professor at Chapman University since 2012.
  — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
• Then 1997’s Good Will Hunting launched them both to stardom, winning them Oscars for screenwriting (their moms were their dates).
  — Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
• In addition to acting, McCartney will also make his screenwriting debut on Defensive.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
• Participants are required to have work experience on at least one film, mostly in the fields of production, direction, acting, screenwriting, cinematography or sound.
  — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
• Hasley was a veteran TV writer who taught screenwriting classes at UCLA Extension.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
• Dan Gregor & Doug Mand, the screenwriting duo behind 2025’s reboot of The Naked Gun, are penning Crazy Taxi.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
• The Terminator was also, technically, an uncredited screenwriting job, but Wisher was crucial in helping Cameron develop the film.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
• Come for the deep dive into mankind’s favorite building material, stay for his detours into everything from Hallmark screenwriting tropes to the lost Yuletide recordings of the late DMX.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
• By the time Cameron came up with the idea for The Terminator — about a robot assassin sent back in time to kill the mother of humanity’s unborn savior — Wisher was growing more interested in screenwriting.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
• The fellowship builds on the success of the WGF Veterans Writing Project, which is a yearlong mentorship program that has helped military vets develop their screenwriting craft for more than a decade.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
• The first day features masterclasses on distribution, screenwriting and directing, covering subjects from narrative construction and creative choices to strategies for positioning films in different markets.
  — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
• While the article is specifically about screenwriting, the general advice — that while every department on a film is an art form, our individual artistry sometimes has to take a backseat to the project’s larger needs — is applicable to anyone working in film and TV.
  — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 23 June 2026
• The three-month screenwriting residency is based in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, next door to Brock Akil’s story27 Productions company.
  — Mya Copeland, Variety, 10 July 2026
• This past January, Liz won a screenwriting award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival for her work on the project, which features her cognitively disabled sister Anna in the movie’s lead role.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
• Imahara had a lifelong passion for engineering and screenwriting after studying electrical engineering at the University of Southern California.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
• Brooks is one of the few entertainers to achieve EGOT status, having won an Academy Award for screenwriting, four Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and three Tonys.
  — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 17 May 2026