Go Into The Story

2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 3

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

How Judd Apatow wrote a screenplay using his email

Email is a curse. An easy distraction. Why not turn that around, make the problem the solution? Why not make email an asset for writing?

The Business of Screenwriting: The phone call

“They want your script.”

Daily Dialogue — January 3, 2019

President Jordan Lyman: It covers your plan for the military overthrow… …of the United States Government.  General James Mattoon Scott: I…

Tweetstorm: Eric Heisserer on Writing and Cultural Sensitivity

“This problem is often quiet but ever-present, and you can bet that studios are learning lessons from BLACK PANTHER and CRAZY RICH ASIANS…

2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 2

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

How to Use Go Into The Story

Blog resources to support your growth as a screenwriter in five areas: Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Study the Craft. Learn the…

Great Scene: “Manhunter”

I think we’d all admit the first time Clarice Starling meets Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, that was a great scene:

Daily Dialogue — January 2, 2019

Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: It’s up to the people to decide what the state of California and the nation will do. [starts rhyming] Ooh…

2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 1

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

2018 Lists

As you attempt to revive yourself after yesterday’s New Year’s Eve festivities, why not take a few moments to get in touch with your inner…

Screenwriting 101: Brad Riddell

“I think this is the time for creating fantastic roles for actors in smaller projects, maybe even based on existing IP, that have a clear…

Daily Dialogue 2019

All of the this year’s Daily Dialogue posts from 2019.

Daily Dialogue — January 1, 2019

Dave: You know, I’ve always wondered about you guys. You know, about how you’re trained to take a bullet for the president? Duane: What…

“Go within yourself…”

Words of wisdom from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

How to Use Go Into The Story (Part 5): Learn the Business

Some end of the year advice for GITS readers.

More Movies Like This, Please: 2018 List

I started something in 2012. Whenever I saw a new movie I liked, I would jump onto Twitter, identify the movie, then simply tweet: “More…

On Writing

“How to write: Stop not writing. Get and keep your butt in chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole — passages, moments…

Daily Dialogue — December 31, 2018

Deep Throat: You’ll have to figure that on your own. Bob Woodward: Look, I’m tired of your chickenshit games! I don’t want hints! I need to…

How to Use Go Into The Story (Part 4): Study the Craft

Some end of the year advice for GITS readers.

Tweetstorm: Ed Solomon on Not Writing a “Micromanaged Script”

“You are NOT creating a document to be manifested precisely as written. No, you’re creating a template for other artists to interpret, to…

Script To Screen: “M*A*S*H”

From the 1970 movie M*A*S*H, screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on a novel by Richard Hooker.

Interview: Adam McKay

Conversations with the writer-director of the movie Vice.

Daily Dialogue — December 30, 2018

“Now Woody, he’s been my pal for as long as I can remember. He’s brave, like a cowboy should be. And kind, and smart. But the thing that…

Jeff, great to hear from you.

Buster Scruggs it is for you and thanks!