The Coen Brothers, Storytelling, and Fate A poem by Ethan Coen reveals a key clue to the brothers’ story sensibilities.
One Way to Get Your Foot in the Door in the Movie and TV Business It’s tough to break into the entertainment business as a screenwriter, but there are plenty of other jobs which can be a springboard to…
Go Into The Story Resource: How To Read A Screenplay If you’re serious about learning the craft, here are some ways to dig into scripts.
On Writing “Creation is not a moment of inspiration but a lifetime of endurance. The drawers of the world are full of things begun. Unfinished…
Daily Dialogue — May 20, 2019 Walter Burns: You can get married all you want, Hildy, but you can’t quit the newspaper business. Hildy Johnson: Well, why not? Walter…
“Aristotle”: A poem This poem by Billy Collins conveys how three-act structure can take a story… anywhere.
Scene Description Spotlight: “Up” Pixar filmmakers are masters at setups and payoffs as in the script for Up.
Go Into The Story Resource: Script To Screen Over 100 excerpts from scripts compared to the their movie versions.
Daily Dialogue — May 19, 2019 “If Tom had learned anything… it was that you can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that’s all…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 391st installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Character On The Screen [Part 4] “Character development means a change in character taking place during the story… Any change of character during the story is legitimate…
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Journalist Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 4,020 consecutive days and counting.
Interview (Video): Scott Beck and Bryan Woods The Season 9 episode of the PBS series “On Story” with the originators, co-writers, and producers of the smash hit movie A Quiet Place.
Reader Question: How to approach writing a story with multiple main characters? Exploring three keys to writing multilinear screenplays.
Go Into The Story Interview: Scott Derrickson My interview with the co-writer and director of the hit Marvel movie Doctor Strange as well as horror movies The Exorcism of Emily Rose and…
Go Into The Story Resource: Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns Go Into The Story followers are contributing breakdowns of contemporary screenplays to an ongoing script analysis series.
The Power of Conflict in Storytelling We have all heard the old saying, “You can’t have drama without conflict.” Yet the power of conflict in storytelling extends beyond merely…
Writing and the Creative Life: Mind Wandering “What no [spouse] of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
Happy Birthday, Go Into The Story! Launched on May 16, 2008, here we are 4,018 consecutive days of blogging later… but what does it all mean?
Video: How They Wrote ‘Breaking Bad’ A 12-minute video delves into the creative process behind the hit TV series.
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