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10 Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need

30 Things About Screenwriting

30 Days of Screenplays: Vol. 1

30 Days of Screenplays: Vol. 2

60 Second Screenwriter

100+ Script Download Links

100 Dialogue-Writing Prompts

160 Scene-Writing Prompts

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 Types

Character Introductions (12 part series)

ChatGPT is a Terrible Screenwriter

Classic Movie Recommendations (1930s-1990s)

Conversations with Wilder

Daily Dialogue (2008–2020)

Deep Focus: The Go Into The Movies Project

Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work

Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs

Free Screenwriting Resources

Go Into The Story Interviews

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

Great Characters

Great Scenes

Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics”

Hidden Movie Gems

Hollywood Tales

Hollywood Writing Fellowships

How I Rewrite a Script

How I Write A Script

How They Write A Script

How to Land a Spot in a Hollywood Writing Program

How To Read A Screenplay

How To Use Go Into The Story

If You Are a Beginning Screenwriter…

Interviews — Audio

Interviews — Video

Interviews — Written

Interviews — Scott Myers

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

On Writing

Page One

Raising the Stakes: 20-part video series by Black List writer Jonathan Stokes

Rod Serling on Writing

Scene Description Spotlight

Screenwriting 101

Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Loos & Emerson (1920)

Screenwriting Mantras

Screenwriting Meta View: Five Stages of Screenplay Structure

Screenwriting Tweetstorms

Script To Screen

Showrunner Rules from TV writer-exec producer Jeff Lieber

So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’

Songwriters On Songwriting

Story Types

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 Business of Screenwriting

The Definitive List of Clichéd Dialogue

The Importance of Subplots [Five-Part Series]

The Spirit of the Spec

The Story Behind Script Coverage

Think Concepts. Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Live Life.

Trimming Tricks of the Trade

TV Spec Script Formatting Primers

Videos: Academy Originals Screenwriter Interviews

Writing Aids: 115 Words for “Walks”

Writing Aids: 90 Words for “Looks”

Writing and the Creative Life

Writing as Jazz, Jazz as Writing (10 part series)

Writing Groups

Writing Reflections on Carl Jung (5 part series)