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Reflections of 1st Annual Black List / Women In Film Feature Writers Lab Participants 6 writers reflect on their experience in recent writers lab in L.A.

Gender as Represented in Spec Script Deals: 1991–2017 Updated to include last year’s numbers. Bottom line: Little change. Scott Myers Mar 15

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2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 15 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity. Scott Myers Mar 15

The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 6] Part 6: Rolling out a new writer’s spec script. Scott Myers Mar 15

Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2018 “Good afternoon. My name is Edward Cole. I don’t know what most people say at these occasions because in all honesty, I’ve tried to avoid… Scott Myers Mar 15

Script Download Links 100+ scripts made available by studios and production companies. Scott Myers Feb 8, 2017

About Screenwriting Master Class Premier online learning resource with Tom Benedek and Scott Myers.

100+ Archive Links In 9 years of hosting Go Into The Story, the site has accumulated over 23,000 posts covering just about every possible subject related to…

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12 Free ‘Go Into The Story’ eBooks Nearly 1,000 pages on the craft and business of screenwriting. Scott Myers Jan 5

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10 Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need

100 Scene-Writing Prompts

100 Screenwriters on Screenwriting

Develop your expertise in 10 areas to maximize your screenwriting potential.

At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Use these prompts to improve your scene-writing chops.

Professional screenwriters reflect on the craft.

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100s of Writer Interviews You can learn a lot from professional writers talking about their craft. Scott Myers Nov 27, 2017

My Interviews with 51 Black List Writers Delving into their backgrounds, Black List scripts, and craft questions. Scott Myers Sep 21, 2017

My Interviews with 25 Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Winners Including every winner from 2012– 2016. Scott Myers Sep 20, 2017