Inneresting Screenwriting Blog

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

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.