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Here are interviews and/or profiles with several established screenwriters:

Most of these are “consumer” articles rather than “trade” articles (exploring the films under discussion rather than offering how-to tips), but the Schulman article contains some very good advice for writers:

“I always hear people say you should ‘write what you know,’ and I’m not even sure I know what that means. Someone did a study on pottery for a new book that’s coming out. They asked one group to make one pot each—they best they could possibly make. They asked another group to make as many pots as they could. They had judges come in, and invariably all the best pots came from the group that made the most pots. I think I’ve found that just writing, a lot, doing it every day, without trying to make it too precious, without feeling like that is the best thing I’ve ever done—just writing is the best way of doing it well. People who write twelve hours a day turn out to be really good writers, so write a lot.” – Thomas Schulman