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Meeting true evil for the first time

Wrapping up Villaintine's Month, we're looking at what happens when an innocent meets a being of pure evil for the first time.

Featured Friday: Love and Death

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, our collection feels weird about how we only seem to see each other at weddings and funerals. These are all stories about beginnings and endings, change and lost opportunities.

🕹️ #282 - Playing games with your audience

A player and a viewer are two entirely different types of audience, right? Of course we're going to say no. You understand how this kind of tease works.

A villain's presence without being present

There's a twist in this Villaintine's Month post: The villain's not who you think it is. And they might not even exist?

Featured Friday: Galentine's Day

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, our collection coincides with a celebration: What’s Galentine’s Day? Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Every February 13th, Leslie Knope and her lady

❓ #281 - Why exactly are you doing this?

Have you found your story's guiding star? How do you know if you've latched on to something that will keep you writing to the end?

This is my villain origin story: Salieri vs. Mozart

Villaintine's Month continues with a closer look at Amadeus, and how a villain like Salieri can make an excellent protagonist (without losing the villainy).

Featured Friday: Unexpected Connections

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate relationships showing up in ways that the characters or the audience might not expect. We have humans in love with someone not-quite human, love between two non-humans,

🧐 #280 - We play to a sophisticated audience

If there's one thing the internet has done for the general public's savviness with entertainment, it's bombard them with clickbait-sized helpings of trope education. But if there are two things, that second one is increasing how much we talk about what we watch, read

Villaintine's Month: Miles Morales vs. Kingpin

This month we're looking at pairings of heroes and villains that have more chemistry than some romantic couples. What does it mean to be an archnemesis?

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