Inneresting
đź‘‹ #302 - Introducing Your Dystopia
What does it feel like to live in a dystopia? What's the street level view of this broken society you're writing a story in? We have examples to talk about in this week's Inneresting.
Insidious Root Beer: Writing conversations with bite
Sometimes it falls on the writer to make two people sitting and talking a dynamic scene that pulls the audience in. We look at one such scene from Star Trek to find some potential writing strategies.
âž•âž•âž• #299 - Scope Creep
How big does a story need to be? Inneresting asks the big questions about story scale this week.
🤷 #298 - Okay, but why?
Why is this the newsletter topic for this week? Why do we think we're the ones to write about it for you? Find out in this week's Inneresting!
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 734 - A Box Full of Teeth with Katie Dippold
I love Widow's Bay so thoroughly, so fiercely, that it strangely makes it difficult to write about. If you're reading this, you've either: Not seen the show, in which case my enthusiasm would be so intense it might put you off actually watching it,
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.
💬💬 #297 - Making a Good Conversation
This week's newsletter explores how active listening skills are part of what differentiates intersecting monologues from an Inneresting conversation.
đź’¬ #296 - Strong Feelings. Few Words.
In the heat of the moment, characters are allowed to not know what to say. This week's Inneresting covers how stress and emotion change how we speak.
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 712 - Preparing to Direct with Eva Victor
True confessions: I saw Sorry, Baby three times. First time was because I got a screener for Scriptnotes and loved it, the second time was when it came out in theaters I had to show my wife the movie I wouldn't stop talking about, and then I took
↔️ #295 - What a dilemma!
A difficult choice isn't automatically a dilemma, so this week's Inneresting looks at how time pressure raises the stakes and forces character action.
Exposition: As Seen on TV
Ideas for how to use in-universe broadcasts to have fun with exposition!
🪞 #294 - Don't Fear the Symmetry
What happens when you show how much opposing characters have in common? How can "two sides of the same coin" add depth to a story?
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 724 - Opening Sequences with Joachim Trier
If you clicked on this and you haven't seen any Joachim Trier movies, go watch a Joachim Trier movie. Any of them. You can't go wrong. And now you're back. What a movie, right? Joachim and his co-writer Eskil Vogt make movies for