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🤼 #291 - Whose side are we on?
This week's Inneresting looks at perspective and audience sympathy. Who are you telling your audience your story is about?
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Our weekly-ish newsletter about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
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Choosing How We Fight (feat. The Boys)
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
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🧪 #290 - A Chemical Reaction
This week's Inneresting focuses on character chemistry! No beakers, goggles, or eye rinse station necessary.
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💺 #289 - The Seat Back Test
This week's Inneresting focuses on visual storytelling elements and not depending on dialogue to explain what's happening.
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🪜 #288 - Not that kind of breakdown
This week's Inneresting wants you to take smaller bites (of your work).
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Reverse Outlining Your 2nd+ Draft
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
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😖 #287 - This is Cringe
This week's Inneresting gets uncomfortable, talking about embarrassment, and what can make a fictional character's behavior as Cringe as possible.
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How to Make an Awkward First Date (feat. Punch-Drunk Love)
Looking at a sequence from Punch-Drunk Love to find lessons on writing awkward dates for fictional characters.
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🔝 2026 Q1 - An Inneresting Digest
A best of compilation of recent links from the Inneresting newsletter, covering writing and topics interesting to writers.
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📝 #286 - Getting words on the page
A collection of links on ways to break out of the writing doldrums and go back to putting words on the page.
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A Taster's Choice Moment: Inviting Vulnerability in Good Will Hunting
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
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❤️🩹 #285 - It's gonna hurt, and that's okay.
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.