Screenwriting Tips & Resources

Writing Tips

Carding/Outlining

• John August's 10 Best Index Card Practices

• Screenwriting Tip: Index Cards, Into the Story

Formatting

• General Formatting Tips (from the Nicholl Fellowship)

• How to Imply Camera Shots in your Script by Dave Trottier, Script Magazine

General Writing Tips

• What is a Story Beat?, Screencraft

Motivation and Wellness

• ​​Feeling Too Blah to Write? 7 quick emotions-based strategies to kickstart your writing by Farzana Doctor

Screenwriting Blogs

• Go Into the Story with Scott Myers

• John August

Web Series

• 5 Crucial Lessons for Making Your First Web Series, No Film School

• 7 Reasons to Create a Web Series, Script

• Writing a Web Series: How to Grab Viewers and Keep Them Coming Back, Film Independent

Online Film Scripts

• BBC Film Library

• Drew's Script-O-Rama

• Hello, Writers

• The Daily Script

• Weekly Script

Stereotypes and Bias in Screenwriting

• The White Saviour Trope, Explained, The Take

• Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers, Janelle Adsit, Renée M. Byrd, Bloomsbury, 2019

• Conscious Language Toolkit

• On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love, Alicia Elliott, Room Magazine

• "Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Workshop" by Lisa Lee, Vida: Women in Literary Arts

• The Disabled Villain: Why Sensitivity Readers Can’t Kill Off This Ugly Trope, The Guardian

Craft Books

• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Writing Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez (2021).

• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany, 2006

• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri, 1972

• Screenplay by Syd Field, 2005

• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg, 1986

• Critical Response Process: A Method for Getting Useful Feedback, From Dance to Dessert​ by Liz Lerman

• When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, Ed. by Dawes Kwame, 2016

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, 2007

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, 1995

• A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, & Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura, 2018​

• Coffee Break Screenwriter by Pilar Alessandra, 2010

• Craft and the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses, 2021

• Screenwriter's Bible 7th edition: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting and Selling Your Script by David Trottier, 2019

• Elements of Indigenous Style: a guide for writing by and about Indigenous peoples by Gregory Younging, 2018

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