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.
Dan Harmon, The Hero’s Journey, and the Circle Theory of Story From the archives, a February 2012 post featuring Dan Harmon’s ‘circle theory’ of Story. I’ve updated it with a video featuring Joseph…
Script To Screen: “Scream” Part of the memorable opening sequence in the 1996 horror movie Scream, written by Kevin Williamson.
Daily Dialogue — May 8, 2019 Pete: I’ll be a sonofabitch. Delmar’s been saved. Delmar O’Donnell: Well, that’s it, boys. I’ve been redeemed. The preacher’s done warshed…
Go Into The Story goes to Paris Reflections on my recent three day master class with 120 French writers, creatives, and movie and television professionals.
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.
Writing and the Creative Life: The act of writing provides health benefits “From long-term health improvements to short-term benefits like sleeping better, it’s official: Writers are doing something right.”
Screenwriting 101: Claire Denis “ In terms of writing a script, I have to figure out moments, and if I see a moment that is fulfilled, I think, now I can start writing…
Daily Dialogue — May 7, 2019 “How do you do it? How do you get all your friends to get baptized just so you can make a monster movie?”
Go Into The Story Resource: Conversations With Billy Wilder A 28-part journey through the wonderful book “Conversations with Billy Wilder” focusing on the master filmmaker’s take on screenwriting…
Reader Question: What to do when you feel out of touch with creative energy? “Be sure not to overlook an obvious consideration: Do you have a strong emotional connection to the story you’re writing?”
On Writing “When I’m thinking about these more abstract, philosophical questions, I start thinking about scenarios that might dramatize them, and…
Daily Dialogue — May 6, 2019 Eli Sunday: We have a sinner with us here who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner? Plainview: Yes. Eli Sunday: Oh, the Lord…
Good point re Amanda. Your take on the mahjong game is spot on. The fact Rachel *does* excel at a “complex Chinese game” demonstrates Rachel has in a way…
Great catch, Rose! This is one of the strengths of dialogue, when it reveals character. And when you can set up where a character is relative to their ongoing…
Script To Screen: “Schindler’s List” From the 1993 movie Schindler’s List (screenplay by Steve Zaillian, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally).
Go Into The Story Resource: Interviews Over the years, I have interviewed over 100 screenwriters, filmmakers, and industry insiders.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Crazy Rich Asians” The entire 6 part series on the smash hit romantic comedy.
Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Character On The Screen [Part 2] “Failure to concentrate on this essential of plot making (developing of character) has been responsible for the wishy-washy substance of…
Daily Dialogue —May 5, 2019 “They don’t give a damn for you, not your wife, not the priest, none of your friends, none of your friends, they’d let me blow your head…
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