A blog about screenwriting and things that are useful for screenwriters.
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This week's newsletter covers examples of layered storytelling, looking at the how and why of stories that play with the audience's understanding of what they're seeing.
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we rounded up a collection of scripts from writers who were featured in the Scriptnotes Book! Read along with these scripts as you Our collection includes scripts from: * David
Inneresting
This week's newsletter features links and examples highlighting how screenwriters can target descriptions of color to create vivid imagery and memorable motifs.
Inneresting
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
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.
Inneresting
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.
Inneresting
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
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: WhatāsĀ Galentineās Day? Oh, itās only the best day of the year. Every February 13th,Ā Leslie KnopeĀ and her lady
Inneresting
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?
Useful Things for Writers
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).
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,
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
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?
Writer credits are complicated, and unpacking them for any particular project may be an impossible task without talking directly to those involved.
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 - āThe Rabbit Holeā by Bridget Carpenter * Avengers: Endgame
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, weāre dropping you into the wilderness with some of our favorite survival thrillers. If you read Hatchet in middle school and thought, āI could do better than that
John tackles a difficult question for writers who wonderĀ how long is too longĀ to keep trying.
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
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.
This week, we celebrate the best part of awards season ā the FYC screenplays released as part of Oscar campaigns!
John talks about knowing what medium would best suite the story you're trying to tell.
