We all have to
start somewhere.

Below is a curated list of resources to help you on your journey.

Books

• Scriptnotes John August & Craig Mazin

• Story Genius Lisa Cron

• Story Robert McKee

• Dialogue Robert McKee

• Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big Will Packer

• The Writers’ Room Survival Guide Niceole Levy

• The Executive Chair: A Writer’s Guide to TV Series Development Kelly Edwards

• The Anatomy of Story John Truby

• The Art of Dramatic Writing Lajos Egri

• The Coffee Break Screenwriter Pilar Alessandra

• Characters & Viewpoint Orson Scott Card 

• The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi

• Pixar Storytelling Dean Movshovitz

• The Hollywood Standard Christopher Riley

• Writing the TV Drama Series Pamela Douglas

• Conflict, Action & Suspense William Noble

• Creating Character Arcs K.M. Weiland

• Script Coverage Basics B. O’Malley

• Respect for Acting Uta Hagen with Haskel Frankel

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell

• Truth Susan Batson

• Actions: The Actor’s Thesaurus Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams

• Director's Tell the Story Bethany Rooney & Mary Lou Belli

• The New Sitcom Career Book Mary Lou Belli & Phil Ramuno

Podcasts

• In the Cut Podcast Rae Benjamin

• 3rd & Fairfax The Writers’ Guild of America West

• On The Page Pilar Alessandra

• The Hollywood Hang Nicolas Curcio and Kristen Tepper

• The Town Matt Belloni

• ScriptNotes John August, Craig Mazin 

• The Writer’s Panel Ben Blacker 

• Draft Zero Chas Fisher, Stuart Willis

• On Story Austin Film Festival

• Scripts & Scribes Scripts & Scribes 

• The A24 Podcast A24

• Write On Final Draft

Classes

• Sundance Collab

• On the Page with Pilar Alessandra

• WritingPad

• MasterClass (Issa Rae, Shonda Rhimes, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Aaron Sorkin, Duffer Brothers, Mindy Kaling, Judd Apatow)

• Script Anatomy

Script Notes + Coverage