A blog about screenwriting and things that are useful for screenwriters.
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week's Inneresting is all about the difference between when characters have a choice and when they're stuck in a dilemma. For our script collection this week,
Inneresting
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.
Ideas for how to use in-universe broadcasts to have fun with exposition!
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. Saddle up for some rough and tumble frontier writin' with our posse of the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest screenplays this side of the Mississippi. This week's scripts include: * 3:
Inneresting
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
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 people
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week's collection is all about creations turning on their creator. Because sometimes scientists have the technical know-how to make science-fiction a reality, but without the liberal arts-based critical
Inneresting
What makes for an Inneresting story beat? Let's break things down as small as possible and see what we find.
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week's collection is all about unreliable characters. These are stories where perspective takes precedence over objective truth. Prose fiction allows a reader to be lied to directly by
Useful Things for Writers
It's all-in on experimental film for Inneresting this week. Let's try something new!
Early on in my Scriptnotes tenure, John slipped during an episode and accidentally called me Drew Goddard. I said, "I wish I was Drew Goddard," to which Craig paused the conversation and very kindly told me that I shouldn't try to be anyone other than myself,
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week's screenplays bring the pain, featuring collaborations like Punches x Kicks and Gunfire x 'Splosions. It's all about fight scenes on the page. Make sure
This week's Inneresting looks at perspective and audience sympathy. Who are you telling your audience your story is about?
The climactic battle in Vought Tower from season 3 finale of The Boys, "The Instant White-Hot Wild" gives an example of grounding tight tactics in clear character choices. There are lots of ways to win a fight, but it feels more impactful when the audience believes that it&
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. We thought we were alone in the universe, but then... From Outer Space they came! Terror from beyond the stars! Who will fight back against these monsters from another planet? Or
This week's Inneresting focuses on character chemistry! No beakers, goggles, or eye rinse station necessary.
Thank you to all the writers who've made this tremendous milestone possible!
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. Hungry for new scripts to read? Why wait? This week we're serving up scripts for all appetites. Fine wine? Sliders? Dessert? We've got you covered. This week&
This week's Inneresting focuses on visual storytelling elements and not depending on dialogue to explain what's happening.
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Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. Some quests leave an escape hatch for the hero. If this adventure doesn't work out, there's something they can fall back on. These aren't those
