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WGA Strike: Love on the Picket Lines

“Writers are aiming for real-life rom-coms while on strike as mixers and matchmakers join the fray.”

Screenwriting 101: Miguel Flatow

“People sometimes ask me, ‘Do you meditate?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, I meditate like four hours a day,’ because that’s the time I’m writing. I’m…

Page One: “Hacks”

Written by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, & Jen Statsky, Pilot (2/19/2021)

Happy Birthday, Go Into The Story!

Launched on May 16, 2008, here we are 5,000+ days of blogging later… but what does it all mean?

Interview (Part 2): Kevin Sheridan

My interview with 2022 Black List writer for his script Colors of Authority.

Updates: WGA Strike

Every day during the strike, I will post a relevant article here.

Script Club

Here’s an opportunity for you to read the screenplay for Everything Everywhere All At Once and discuss live online.

Page One: “Game of Thrones”

Created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin, written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss…

Go Into The Story Resource: Movie Script Scene-By-Scene Breakdowns

Go Into The Story followers are contributing breakdowns of contemporary screenplays to an ongoing script analysis series.

Interview (Part 1): Kevin Sheridan

My interview with 2022 Black List writer for his script Colors of Authority.

Deadline Strike Talk Podcast

A weekly podcast conversation with Hollywood producer Todd Garner and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray.

On Writing

“Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale that speaks to you, that pops…

Page One: “Chernobyl”

Written by Craig Mazin, Pilot (8/15/2018)

Go Into The Story Resource: So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’

A comprehensive series on the most significant of the supposed screenwriting ‘rules,’ hopefully to put things into proper perspective…

“Things We Lost In The Stream”

Longtime TV writers Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina bring back their popular Children of Tendu podcast to weigh in on the WGA strike…

“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, then we torture them.”

Reflections on one of my favorite quotes on writing.

Script To Screen: “The Truman Show”

From the 1998 movie The Truman Show, written by Andrew Nichol.

Page One: “Friday Night Lights”

Written by Peter Berg, Pilot (11/18/2005 )

Go Into The Story Resource: Script Reading & Analysis Series

Movie scripts analyzed to depth including Scene-By-Scene Breakdown, Plot, Characters, Themes, Dialogue.

Why AI Is the Most Important Issue in the Writers’ Strike

A must read article by WGA member Cole Haddon.

Script To Screen: “Unforgiven”

From the 1992 movie Unforgiven, written by David Webb Peoples, the movie’s Final Struggle sequence.

Interview (Written): Andrea Pallaoro

A conversation with the co-writer and director of the new indie drama Monica.

Page One: “Arrested Development”

Written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Pilot (3/21/2003)

ChatGPT does Alfred Hitchcock

Using my prompt, the generative artificial intelligence program composes a scene involving a two people seated at an outdoor cafe, enjoying…

Go Into The Story Resource: Screenwriting Tweetstorms

Twitter threads uploaded by professional screenwriters, TV writers, and producers on a wide variety of subjects.