Inneresting Screenwriting Blog

Screenwriting Credits Explained

Writer credits are complicated, and unpacking them for any particular project may be an impossible task without talking directly to those involved.

Featured Friday: Time Travel

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we travel through the fourth dimension with some of our favorite time travel stories. Our collection includes: * 11.22.63 - “The Rabbit Hole” by Bridget Carpenter * Avengers: Endgame

Featured Friday: Survival Thrillers

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we’re dropping you into the wilderness with some of our favorite survival thrillers. If you read Hatchet in middle school and thought, “I could do better than that

Never Too Late: Screenwriting at Any Age

John tackles a difficult question for writers who wonder how long is too long to keep trying.

Featured Friday: Winter Dramas

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we settle into January with some of our favorite dramas set during these long, cold winter months. Real talk, when I scheduled this I was hoping the Heated Rivalry

Assistants’ Advice for Showrunners

John surveyed current and former TV assistants to create a document that is both specific to the world of television and also can broadly apply as a template for how to be a better boss.

Featured Friday: Awards 2025

This week, we celebrate the best part of awards season – the FYC screenplays released as part of Oscar campaigns!

Novel vs. Screenplay: Choose the Right Route for Your Story

John talks about knowing what medium would best suite the story you're trying to tell.

Screenplay Scene Headings: INT., EXT., and I/E Explained

In screenplay scene headings, INT. and EXT. stand for interior and exterior, respectively. You use INT. when the scene takes place inside a location and EXT. when it occurs outside.

🗓️ #279 - What will we make this year about?

Thanks for joining us again for the start of another Inneresting year! Even though a new year is a somewhat arbitrary place to make a fresh start, it's a good time to take stock. What have you been doing? What are you doing? What do you want to

Featured Friday: Frontiers, Myths, and Legends

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we're pulling from our proposed film studies syllabus to focus on larger than life storytelling. These stories ask big questions about what makes a hero, and peel

Script Revision Colors: How to Track Your Screenplay Changes

Colored pages are used in film and television to keep track of revisions to a script as it goes into production.