One of the most useful things a beginner screenwriter can do is to read great screenplays and absorb their style, structure, character development, and yes, even formatting. As someone who reads spec scripts for a living, I can’t tell you how many times I witness a great premise or story completely ruined by bad screenwriting. That’s why Go Into The Story’s annual upload of screenplays for awards contender films is very important to aspiring screenwriters, as well as to film buffs who want to get a closer look at how the sausage is made.
Go Into The Story, by Scott Myers, is the screenwriting blog of The Blacklist, a web site dedicated to matching great screenplays with great filmmakers. The blog is invaluable in the way that it provides film-school level education to screenwriters for free, and this collection of the year’s greatest produced screenplays might be their most important service. Here, you get 41 screenplays that can be accessed with a single click. If you only have...
