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🍽️ #309 - Dinner is Served
You don't need a serial killer or a nuclear crisis to force characters to spend time stuck in a room. We're setting the table for dinner party storytelling in this week's Inneresting.
😱 #304 - How smart is too smart (for a character in a horror story)?
Your audience deserves a better class of horror victim. How do we write smarter characters that can still find themselves on the business end of a machete?
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 739 - The One with David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley likes a courtroom. Who can blame him? He went to law school, his first writing job was on LA Law, and he created (among twenty other legendary TV series) The Practice, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Presumed Innocent, The Lincoln Lawyer, and Ally McBeal. Even when
Is Jason Voorhees a sympathetic monster?
At what point does a monster become frightening for what they do instead of what they represent? Can writers find sympathy in a slasher?
👹 #303 - Sympathy for the Monster
Don't reach for that pitchfork! We're talking about writing sympathetic monsters, and how offending the delicate sensibilities of a community is enough to set off an angry mob.
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 736 - The Devil You Know with Aline Brosh McKenna
In Hollywood, when one of your best friends works on a movie, you're gonna hear about it a lot. You get all the details, from their excitement when it gets the green light, venting through the craziness of production, and surviving the carnival of releasing it out into
👋 #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.
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 676 - Writing while the World is on Fire with Dennis Palumbo
It's like Hemingway said: "Boys, Shakespeare got there first and better, so relax and start writing."
Standard Screenplay Format: The Complete Writer’s Guide
The screenplay format is exacting and regimented. It can intimidate new writers and old pros alike because at some point all of your wonderful ideas need to be transformed into sluglines and action lines and dialogue. But, before you start worrying about translating all of your ideas into screenplay format,
🤯 #301 - Okay, Doomer.
In some stories the future isn't bright, but you gotta wear mirrored shades. We're talking dystopian storytelling and the discomfort of when far-flung futures start to feel all too real.
Character Arcs: The Evolution of Dr. Alan Grant
A character's transformation within a story takes time. It's the accumulation of many moments over time, layering and building on each other. Ideally those moments mesh with other parts of the story already in play. As the character navigates the challenges in front of them, they
An Inneresting Digest: 2026 Q2
A look into the psyche of our readership, collecting the most popular links from the last three months of Inneresting!
Scriptnotes Recap: Ep. 733 - Learning Comedy with Ali Barthwell
Yes yes, Ali Barthwell is insanely funny and has talent bursting out of her eyeballs, but the thing I want to celebrate her for the most is how she's built her career. Living in LA, you always hear stories about the creatives who live in other places. People