Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing” A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed author’s memoir.
Guillermo del Toro Has Spent ‘Roughly 16 Years’ Writing Screenplays That Never Got Filmed For the next time you whine about your experience as a screenwriter.
Script To Screen: “A Few Good Men” Perhaps the most memorable scene from the 1992 drama A Few Good Men, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin based on his play.
The Theology of Cinema: Kingdom of God “When the kingdom really comes, it’s as if the thing you lost and thought you’d never find again is you.”
Page One: “Traffic” (2000) Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, based on the miniseries “Traffik” by Simon Moore
Movie Story Type: Frustration Comedy With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types. One of them: Frustration Comedy.
How They Write a Script: Ernest Lehman Wrote Sabrina, The King and I, North by Northwest, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? among others.
Page One: “Toy Story 4” (2019) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton & Stephany Folsom, original story by John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton & Josh Cooley & Valerie LaPointe & Rashida…
Reader Question: May I deliver my scripts personally to a literary management company? Short answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Deep Focus: Film School on the Cheap Resources put together by members of the Go Into The Story community.
Video: Eric Roth Reflections on the screenwriting craft from the screenwriter of Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Writing and the Creative Life: 4 Tips On Creativity From The Creator Of Calvin & Hobbes I saw this article in Fast Company a while back and in reading it, I realized how important comic strips have been in my adult life…
2021 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 30 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Interview (Audio): Christopher McQuarrie A half-hour conversation with the writer-director of Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible — Fallout.
The Business of Screenwriting: The Travails of Pitching— The Surprise Visitor After the humbling experience of pitching the latest project to a distracted exec, we actually sell it to another studio. We head out to…
Page One: “Tootsie” (1982) Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
2021 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 29 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Spec Script Deal: “The Paladin” Stampede Ventures has acquired action spec script “The Paladin” written by Umair Aleem. Via Deadline:
Character = Function Learn all about five primary character archetypes: Protagonist, Nemesis, Attractor, Mentor, and Trickster.
