Go Into The Story Resource: Story Types With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types.
Script Analysis: “Little Women” — Part 1: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.
On Writing “Here’s the distinction. There’s a profound difference between making something up and imagining it. You’re making something up when you…
How to Use Dashes and Ellipses in a Screenplay Examples from movie scripts demonstrate these two tiny forms of punctuation can be a valuable asset for a screenwriter.
Go Into The Story Resource: Great Characters Need inspiration? Here are 100+ articles analyzing great movie characters.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The Aeronauts” The entire 6 part series delving into the action adventure movie.
“How I Wrote Breaking Bad” A Behind the Curtain video featuring Vince Gilligan about writing the exceptional TV series.
Daily Dialogue — May 10, 2020 “It’s sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn’t allow them to believe that I would commit murder…
Jorge, with all due respect to your friend, I’m with you. I’m curious what your friend means by ‘conflict,’ perhaps his definition is different than ours.
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.
Script Analysis: “The Aeronauts” — Part 6 — Takeaways Read and analyze the script for the action adventure movie.
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Behind The Curtain: Greta Gerwig Reflections on the screenwriting craft from the writer-director of the latest adaptation of Little Women.
Daily Dialogue — May 9, 2020 “Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.”
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.
Go Into The Story Resource: Reader Questions Nearly 300 questions on virtually any subject related to screenwriting with my responses and feedback from GITS readers.
Script Analysis: “The Aeronauts” — Part 5: Dialogue Read and analyze the script for the action adventure movie.
Go Into The Story Resource: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs A 20 part series, essential reading for anyone who is writing and hoping to sell a spec script.
Script Analysis: “The Aeronauts” — Part 4: Themes Read and analyze the script for the action adventure movie.
Spec Script Deal: “2084” Paramount Pictures acquires science fiction drama spec script “2084” written by Mattson Tomlin. Via THR:
The Business of Screenwriting: Never forget who the star is “It’s no surprise that William Goldman began his excellent book ‘Adventures in the Screen Trade’ with a chapter titled ‘Stars.’ Of…
