🪭 Inneresting #261 - Do you know your audience?
How can a story show it has a strong, personal understanding of its audience? Should a story start from there, or find its way?
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Featured Friday: Back to School
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we head back to school with stories that capture the excitement (and ease the pain) of starting another academic year. Our collection includes: * 10 Things I Hate About You
🗣️ Inneresting #260 - How long do we need to talk about this?
Sometimes we use science to talk about craft, like when a study about conversations can teach something about dialogue.
Featured Friday: Bad Vacations
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. It's hot outside this week, so we're welcoming the summer heat with some of our favorite vacations from hell. Grab some hydration, find a cool spot, and
🗑️ Inneresting #259 - It's all just trash
We're talking about the Garbage Can Model and how a description of chaotic organizations can help writers think about their minds and their craft.
Featured Friday: Small Casts
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we’re looking at movies with notably small casts, and how by keeping it simple, writers are able to craft tremendously powerful stories with just a few characters. Our
📰 Inneresting #258 - Only the truth?
What does dramatizing real events do that can't be done with a documentary or the primary sources?
Featured Friday: Zombies
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week..... BRAAAAAAIIIINS!!! Our collection includes: * 28 Days Later by Alex Garland * 28 Weeks Later by Rowan Joffe & Juan Carlos Fresnadillo & E.L. Lavigne & Jesus Olmo * Dawn of
🤡 Inneresting #257 - Are we taking this seriously?
Tone is a conscious point-of-view communicated by the writer. But are we talking about style or vibes?
Featured Friday: Emmy FYC 2025
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, to mark the start of Emmy season, we look back at some of the best TV scripts of the last year. Let’s be real – awards are dumb for
🙃 Inneresting #256 - Learning the Wrong Lessons
Aesop would never.
Featured Friday: Fashionistas
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at characters whose lives revolve around fashion, and how centering stories on those who chase beauty and perfection can create elaborate fantasies and cautionary tales that an
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Featured Friday: Sports Comedies
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at the beloved genre of sports comedies to see how much conflict and character are brought out by competitions, why it’s so fun to root for
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🏳️ Inneresting #255 - Taking the L
When there's no way to win, what's there to do?
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Featured Friday: Revenge
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, it’s all about revenge as we look at how a lust for retribution can drive characters beyond their normal limits and fuel stories of any size. Our collection
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Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 688, Writing Jokes with Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia is a Scriptnotes regular. He is the second most frequent guest after Aline Brosh McKenna (the Joan Rivers of Scriptnotes), making him practically a staple of the show, yet after two and a half years as producer this is the first time I’d actually been able to
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Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 685, Page and Stage with Leslye Headland
Leslye Headland was a theater kid. She is now, of course, one of the most prolific and productive storytellers around, seemingly always writing and directing plays, movies and TV shows all at the same time. But when we sat down with her to focus on her most recent play Cult
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Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 684, Landing a Series with Eric Kripke
I have a confession to make: I don’t watch the The Boys. I know! I believe everyone who tells me that it’s great! John is continually disappointed in me whenever I tell him that I haven’t seen it yet! And after having Eric Kripke on the show,
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🤖 Inneresting #254 - AI-yai-yai
Why did we program these artificial life forms to feel stress?
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Featured Friday: Beach (Movie) Reads
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we travel to the beach – that summer staple of sand and surf that looks like it should be a little slice of paradise, but often ends up being anything
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Inneresting #253 - Hollywood Ruined (x) for Me
Solve for all values of (x)
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Featured Friday: Magical Dads
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Father’s Day with one of our favorite sub-genres: the Magical Dad movie. See, a typical middle-aged man is too stubborn and aloof for standard narrative conflict
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🍿 Inneresting #252 - Make it a Blockbuster Night
In the Summer a livelier sound design pumps from speakers 'round the room; In the Summer an audience's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of BOOM KA-POW DINOSAUR NOISES DINOSAUR NOISES SPAAAAAaaaaaCE SHIP. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall 16 (presented by eMagine) We're here today for
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Featured Friday: Pride
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Pride month with some of our favorites LGBTQIA+ stories! Our collection includes: * A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza * A Single Man by Tom Ford