Go Into The Story Resource: A Screenwriter’s Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics” You know you should read it. This 44-part series takes you through all of “Poetics” and offers analysis from a screenwriter’s perspective.
Overview: “The Protagonist’s Journey” “Scott Myers’ debut book is more than a study of the craft of screenwriting, it is the definitive guide to storytelling for the screen.”
Script Analysis: “Spencer” — Part 1: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown A week-long analysis of the British royalty biopic drama script and movie. Download. Read. Discuss.
On Writing “Respect your first draft! It’s your child, just a little uncoordinated and unkempt. Don’t throw that baby out with the bathwater. The fact…
Go Into The Story Resource: Annual Spec Script Market Reports Detailed information and statistics on every verified spec script deal from 2008–2021, and analysis of the spec script market and business…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2022) This is the 13th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.
Great Scene: “Double Indemnity” “There’s a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.”
Video: Inside the Writers Room with Breaking Bad A 2014 Writers Guild Foundation conversation with the writers of the outstanding television series Breaking Bad.
2021 Spec Script Market Analysis Comprehensive analysis of all the reported spec script deals in 2021.
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 30 This is the 13th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
How They Write A Script: Jay Presson Allen “She is one of a handful of first-rank screenwriters of the post-1960s who also happens to be female. This has figured into her trademark…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 29 This is the 13th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
Writing and the Creative Life: The Incurable Disease of Writing “In psychological terms, it seems that drive is more important than talent in producing creative work.”
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 28 This is the 13th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
Spec Script Formatting Primers An amazing resource for TV writers provided by the Writers Guild Foundation.
The Business of Screenwriting: Living and Writing in L.A. Let me say up front, there are enormous advantages for a screenwriter to live in or near Los Angeles. Here are a few key ones:
Page One: “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989) Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, story by Shane Black & Warren Murphy, characters by Shane Black
