Writing TWISTS Into Your Script!

Screenwriting: From the Trenches

Get a twist wrong and audiences will reject your movie. Get it right and your story can become iconic. Rob & Kay are here to help you figure out how to engineer the latter in a time when audiences are at their most savvy. How to setup, then subvert the payoff, when to go left and when to read the room and give the audience what they want. And finally, when to jump out of your movie right in the middle -- and the caveat of doing such a thing in your script.

Our Weekly Resource: ⁠ Usually, our Resources feel like homework, but this week is just pure internet wastetimery. WatchMojo has a list of the 20 Best Movie Plot Twists of the 21st Century (So Far), and it’s a fun way to see all of the things we’ve talked about on this podcast put to good use in movies you have/haven’t seen. Spoiler Alert, obvi. And, you’re welcome.

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HBO is now just Max

Fuck You David Zaslav (socials in the video's description)

Scriptnotes Side Cast #12: Location Picketing

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Rob's Episode on an Indie film work/life balance

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