The Business of Screenwriting: Get a damn good lawyer! The most expensive lesson I ever learned in Hollywood.
Go Into The Story Resource: Story Types With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types.
Reader Question: How to approach writing a story with multiple main characters? Exploring three keys for writing multilinear screenplays.
Writing Wisdom from Akira Kurosawa “You need to get used to the task of writing. You must make an effort to learn to regard it not as something painful, but as routine.”
Go Into The Story Resource: Great Characters Need inspiration? Here are 100+ articles analyzing great movie characters.
Scene Description Spotlight: “Unforgiven” The ‘folksy’ narrative voice in sync with the movie’s Western genre and a clean read with strong bursts of imagematic writing.
Screenwriting 101: Nancy Meyers “Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make…
Page One: “Logan” (2017) Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, story by James Mangold
Go Into The Story Resource: 140 Scene-Writing Prompts At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Use these prompts to improve your scene-writing chops.
What is the conflict in the scene? Fact: There is almost nothing less entertaining than a scene with zero conflict and the characters all in agreement with each other.
Reader Question: What are three good “how to” scripts to read? Three essential scripts for learning the craft.
On Writing “It’s funny, I teach writing, and before I taught I never would have guessed the thing I say most often is: ‘Please stop thinking.’ But…
Go Into The Story Resource: Reader Questions Nearly 300 questions on virtually any subject related to screenwriting with my responses and feedback from Go Into The Story readers.
Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies” A weekly series featuring reflections on filmmaking by one of the truly great movie directors.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Spencer” A week-long analysis of the British royalty biopic drama script and movie.
Page One: “The Lost Weekend” (1945) Screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, novel by Charles R. Jackson
Script Analysis: “Spencer” — Part 6: Takeaways A week-long analysis of the British royalty biopic drama script and movie. Download. Read. Discuss.
There is this exchange between Charles and Diana which really sums up what Dianai is up against: CHARLES (CONT'D)
It's pretty obvious that the central theme has to do with freedom vs. As in Shawshank, institutionalization looms like a ticking clock, each tick forward moving the individual further away from their humanity…
I have this theory that there is something going on in terms of character archetypes in stories. The Protagonist represents a forward-moving dynamic, a character or characters most often driven by a conscious goal.
