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 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
Inneresting
It's all-in on experimental film for Inneresting this week. Let's try something new!
Scriptnotes Recap
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,
Featured Friday
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
Inneresting
This week's Inneresting looks at perspective and audience sympathy. Who are you telling your audience your story is about?
Inneresting
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&
Featured Friday
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
Useful Things for Writers
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.
The best writing tools help strip away everything competing for you attention, giving you a single-purpose solution designed for one thing: getting words on the page. That's why Highland Pro has partnered with Freewrite for a special distraction-free screenwriting bundle from April 15th-April 30! The Big Screen Bundle
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
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
Ask ten screenwriters how many acts a screenplay has and you'll get a range of answers — three, four, five, depending on who you're talking to and whether they're writing film or television. The honest answer is that it depends entirely on format. Here'
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
This week's Inneresting gets uncomfortable, talking about embarrassment, and what can make a fictional character's behavior as Cringe as possible.
Looking at a sequence from Punch-Drunk Love to find lessons on writing awkward dates for fictional characters.
