Free Screenwriting Resources

Here are twenty Free Screenwriting Resources on the blog:

1, 2, 7, 14: A simple formula to be a more productive and better screenwriter.

30 Days of Screenplays: Links to download a month-load of scripts for you to read and analyze.

115 Words for “Walks” / 90 Words for “Looks”: Both practical and to inspire you to use strong, active verbs in your writing.

200 Story Ideas: Cobbled from the news and offered to readers each April for the last 8 years… to do with as you please.

Dialogue! Dialogue! Dialogue!: Over 3,000 posts spotlighting notable movie dialogue you can use for inspiration and analysis.

Film School on the Cheap: Educational resources for Movies, Screenwriting, Film Analysis, Filmmakers, and Filmmaking.

Go Into The Story Interviews: My in-depth interviews with screenwriters, filmmakers and industry insiders.

Guide to Aristotle’s “Poetics”: Over the course of a year, I broke down this seminal work in a weekly series.

Guide to Watching Movies: Overviews and analysis of must-see movies listed decade by decade.

How to Read a Screenplay: 7-part series presenting an immersive approach to analyzing a script.

Interviews with Professional Screenwriters: Hundreds of audio, video and written interviews with writers who know the craft.

Movie Story Types: Go beyond genres and learn about a variety of story types that are part of Hollywood vernacular.

Scene Description Spotlight: Upgrade your action-writing ability by studying these scripted excerpts.

Scene-Writing Exercises: Dozens of prompts to advance your ability at writing scenes.

Spec Script Sales Analysis: 2008–2015: Learn market trends in recent years with this in-depth series of reports.

The Business of Screenwriting: Hundreds of columns about understanding Hollywood and how to survive as a working writer.

The Story Behind Script Coverage: All about script readers — Hollywood’s “gatekeepers” — and how they cover scripts.

The Theology of Screenwriting: A metaphorical look at theological concepts and their relevance to screenwriting.

Writers on Writing Quotes: Bite-sized inspiration from professional writers on the craft.

Speaking of free, feel free to send any of these links to your screenwriting compatriots. There are 23,000 posts on this site and now that I’m at Medium, I’ll be working to make them as accessible and useful as possible.