Free Screenwriting Resource: Screenwriting 101

Every Tuesday at 10AM Eastern, I post words of wisdom from professional screenwriters. I call this series Screenwriting 101. They are generally short and to the point observations about the craft. A few examples:

“And then comes the great leap which is the first draft, I call it ‘the muscle draft,’ where you just muscle it out. You don’t worry about what you’re missing, you just get through it, get to the end.” — Darren Aronofsky

“The way I did it is every 5 to 10 pages, I wanted a big fist to come out of the screenplay and punch the reader right in the gut.” — Allan Durand

“Each scene must be a drama in itself. The whole picture must be made up of a series of small dramas. This makes the completed picture a mosaic of little ones.” — Jeanie Macpherson

“For me, the secret to turning your narrative payload into something you can deliver is to ask yourself ‘What is the simple emotional journey that grounds everything?’ That gives me a compass point, and permission to jettison what isn’t going to help me get to where I’m going.” — Justin Rhodes

If you want to learn the craft, what better place to go than to read what professional writers have to say about it. Over the years, I have aggregated a few hundred of these observations.

Go here to access the entire archive of Screenwriting 101 posts.

Go here to access links to all of the select group of Free Screenwriting Resources from Go Into The Story.

Each day in August, I’m going to highlight a screenwriting resource available on the blog. Why? Because with over 15,000 posts and 70+ archive topics, I want to make sure readers are aware of the many, many assets available here for reading and research. And they are all free!

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