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Why we chose to do a Save the Cat!® beat sheet analysis of Spider-Man: Brand New Day Spider-Man: A Brand New Day had the biggest domestic (US) opening of all time and is the highes...
A great way to analyze screenplay structure is by studying a script’s scene-by-scene breakdown. Go Into The Story followers are contributing breakdowns of contemporary screenplays...
Why we chose to do a Save the Cat!® beat sheet analysis of Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves is a literary fantasy n...
Why we chose to do a Save the Cat!® beat sheet analysis of Widow’s Bay Winner of 14 2026 Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding...
Why we chose to do a Save the Cat!® beat sheet analysis of The Others In most haunted house stories, the living are terrorized by ghosts. In The Others, the beat sheet must track t...
Hundreds of observations about the craft from professional screenwriters.Abrams, J.J.: “The idea that this world we know isn’t just this world we know but that a package might arr...
“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.”
“Every scene has to be doing something. It has to be moving the story along, peeling off a layer of the onion so to speak. The goal in its…
“There's not a single battle a writer can win on a conference call, a notes meeting, anything. We win the battle on the page.”--Justin MarksFor 100s more articles in the Screenwrit...
“Sometimes you’ll get a note, ‘This scene is boring, can we put in a car chase?’ What you should take from that note is this scene, this quiet scene you intended to be emotionally...
A Go Into The Story eBook... and it's free!Recently, I floated the possibility in social media that I might aggregate the 2,500+ spec script deals I had tracked since 1991 into a r...
“That second act, for me, is the most fun, because the first and third act have such clearly defined functions. The first act you have to set up the problem or problems, introduc...
How do you attack and structure a story? Do you see the situation first? Do you have an image or set piece in mind? Or do you begin with character?For me, that’s typically the case...
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“There really are no characters in plays; there are relationships.”--Arthur MillerFor 100s more On Writing posts, go here.The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character-Dr...
“Sometimes you’re swinging your way through a first draft like a blind miner with a pick-axe. That’s OK. Get it done, nothing else…
"There are three different drafts of a screenplay in the development process. The first screenplay is for the studio, when they say, 'Okay, we like this.'The second screenplay you...
The Business of Screenwriting is a series of Go Into The Story articles based upon my experiences as a complete Hollywood outsider who sold a spec script for a lot of money, parlay...
Since the dawn of storytelling, there have been archetypes. What aspects of archetypes are actually useful for writers? And how do we move beyond tropes to create complex character...
Novelists and screenwriters often fight the same battles, even though their end products differ.Whatever you’re writing, you’ll want a premise that’s easy to pitch with a catchy ho...
I’m currently stuck in the bog of plot and planning. I’ve been here for a week trying to outline my next murder mystery/fantasy mash up. Being a plotter (and being horrified by the...
Once upon a time, Twitter was a perfect social medium for screenwriters. To waste time, of course, but the impulse to dash off a thought here or there was pretty common to writers...
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