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The Story Department is a screenwriting blog about story, script and selling, for writers who keep learning.
Story and sales advice for screenwriters.
The structure analysis archive takes finished films apart to show how they are built. An entry on How to Train Your Dragon argues that its symbolic depth and imagery repay close reading, even though the film is animated.
Visit linkThe Script Perfection archive covers format and style, the mechanics of getting a screenplay onto the page. Its posts include an interview with a script reader who has worked for Netflix and other producers.
Visit linkThe pitching and selling archive covers the sales half of a working screenwriter's job. Its lead interview covers a script reader's work for a Taylor Sheridan studio, the effect of AI on screenwriting and how streamers changed screenplays.
Visit linkThe Story Department keeps story craft and the business of selling in one place. Its WATCH, READ, WRITE column opens with the author's habit of asking aspiring writers which films and shows they study, and its structure analysis takes apart finished movies. Thematic structure and pacing essays sit beside pieces on passive protagonists and on synopses, so craft questions and sale questions share one archive.
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