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. 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
Inneresting
This week's Inneresting wants you to take smaller bites (of your work).
You've got a complete draft, you've done a small celebratory dance, and even gotten feedback from readers. It's all coming together! Now what? If you're a little (or a lot lost), a reverse outline may be where you need to start. Instead
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week we've talked a lot about Cringe on the blog, so we've put together a pack of scripts that are intended to make the audience feel
Inneresting
This week's Inneresting gets uncomfortable, talking about embarrassment, and what can make a fictional character's behavior as Cringe as possible.
Inneresting
Looking at a sequence from Punch-Drunk Love to find lessons on writing awkward dates for fictional characters.
Inneresting
A best of compilation of recent links from the Inneresting newsletter, covering writing and topics interesting to writers.
Featured Friday
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. Tying in with this week's blog post about vulnerability in Good Will Hunting, we bring you a collection of scripts about therapists, therapy, and the healing process. How does
Inneresting
A collection of links on ways to break out of the writing doldrums and go back to putting words on the page.
Useful Things for Writers
It's emotionally healthy for a character to allow themselves some vulnerability with other people. That doesn't mean every character wants to, and it doesn't guarantee that this is an important goal for every character. If it's important to the character's
Celebrate the best part of awards season – the FYC screenplays released as part of Oscar campaigns! 2025 was an amazing year for movies, and these screenplays are bound to be influential for generations to come. Our collection includes: * Bugonia by Will Tracy * F1 by Ehren Kruger * Frankenstein by Guillermo del
What makes a character afraid to open up to those around them? Why do closed-off characters fear vulnerability, and how can a writer challenge that? We look at examples in this week's newsletter.
Fling is a seamless sharing feature built directly into Highland that enables you to send a short-lived web version of your document to friends, colleagues, or teammates.
Stop emailing PDFs: share your scripts with Highland Fling to collect and collate feedback without ever losing control of your drafts.
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. Tying in with this week's Inneresting about Layered Narrative Structures, we're highlighting some scripts that play with an audience's idea of time, truth, and/or
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.
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
This week's newsletter features links and examples highlighting how screenwriters can target descriptions of color to create vivid imagery and memorable motifs.
Wrapping up Villaintine's Month, we're looking at what happens when an innocent meets a being of pure evil for the first time.
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.
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.
