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In 18 years of hosting Go Into The Story, the site has accumulated 34,000+ posts covering just about every subject related to screenwriting. Here are links to help you search for information. And it's all free!
10 Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need
30 Days of Screenplays: Vol. 1
30 Days of Screenplays: Vol. 2
2023 WGA Strike: Daily Coverage
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2010–2024)
Academy Originals Screenwriter Interviews (Videos)
Advice From Pro Screenwriters on Pitching
An Argument Against Screenplay Formulas
Analysis: Andrew Stanton’s TED Talk: “Clues to a Great Story”
Black List Writers on the Craft
Character Introductions (12 part series)
ChatGPT is a Terrible Screenwriter
Classic Movie Recommendations (1930s-1990s)
Deep Focus: The Go Into The Movies Project
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work
Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs
Go Into The Story Interviews — Black List Writers
Go Into The Story Interviews — Nicholl Fellowship Writers
Go Into The Story Movie Analysis Series
Go Into The Story Reader Questions
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis Series
Go Into The Story Twitter Conversations
Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics”
How to Land a Spot in a Hollywood Writing Program
If You Are a Beginning Screenwriter…
Interviews — Hundreds of Links to All Hosted on the Site
Is My Screenplay Big Enough to Be a Movie: 10 Questions to Ask
Mickey Fisher on Writing, Selling, and Producing a TV Pilot Spec Script
Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns
Raising the Stakes: 20-part video series by Black List writer Jonathan Stokes
Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Loos & Emerson (1920)
Screenwriting Meta View: Five Stages of Screenplay Structure
Showrunner Rules from TV writer-exec producer Jeff Lieber
So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’
Studies in Flashbacks (5 Part Series)
Studies in Voice-Over Narration (5 Part Series)
Sundays with Ray Bradbury’s “Zen in the Art of Writing”
Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies”
Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing”
The Definitive List of Clichéd Dialogue
The Importance of Subplots [Five-Part Series]
The Story Behind Script Coverage
Think Concepts. Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Live Life.
TV Spec Script Formatting Primers
Videos: Academy Originals Screenwriter Interviews
Writing Aids: 115 Words for “Walks”
Writing Aids: 90 Words for “Looks”