Go Into The Story Resource: Story Types
With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types.
With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types.
On May 16, 2023, Go Into The Story turns 15 years old — you can read the very first blog post here. I led with this paragraph:
Welcome to Go Into The Story! Right now, it’s nothing but a humble, threadbare blog, but I hope it will evolve into an active resource for aspiring screenwriters, as well as a community for anyone interested in storytelling and the creative life.
And evolve it did! To the point where it was recently named “Best of the Best” Scriptwriting Website in the 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Best Websites for Writers list.
To celebrate 15 years of blogging about screenwriting, writing, Hollywood, movies, TV, and the creative life, each day in May, I’m going to feature a piece of Go Into The Story trivia, plus a writing resource you can find in the site’s archives. This is not an exercise in self-congratulations so much as I figured readers could use some tips about how to best use the site. With — to date — over 100 archive topics, there is a LOT of content here. Hopefully, these posts for the next 31 days will clue in more recent followers and remind long-time readers about resources you can use to facilitate deepening your understanding of the writing craft.
Today’s trivia: A year or so ago, Medium stopped counting the total number of posts on Go Into The Story. The last recorded total I have: 28,131. That translates into about 5 posts per day. Insane, I know, but that was always a piece of my vision for this website: Someplace a writer interested in screenwriting could go to find relevant information about the business and inspiration about the craft.
Today’s Go Into The Story resource: Story Types.
There are specific types of stories we see recurring in movies. Below are some of them.
Playing around with these story types is one way to inspire the story ideation process.
Each day this month, I want to take the opportunity to thank you for supporting Go Into The Story. I’d love to hear from you in RESPONSES. When did you start following the blog? What are your favorite features? And as always, if you have any suggestions, feel free to suggest away.