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Are you talking about how you organize the folder systems that these entries are stored in, or how you should organize them as big categories with subcategories and so on so that it's easier to navigate? There seems to be some big ones looking right at that list: "Watching Movies" covering reviews, scenes, dialogue, etc, "Writing Movies" which would cover screenwriting tips, story ideas, etc, "Selling Movies" which would be the spec sales and so on, and "Talking Movies" which is interviews and those sorts of thing. You just turn them into hidden submenus on the side (same with Blogroll, Resources, Friends etc) and you've got a simpler side navigation and I imagine any web building software should have the ability to do that). For the New User section, maybe call it something like "Ground Floor" or "The Bare Basics."

Do you have page view numbers available to you which indicate which content topics have been the most popular? If so, it would be great to have a sidebar that lists the most popular posts since the most popular posts will likely be the ones people found the most important or helpful. If there isn't enough data to determine that, perhaps we as your readers can post links (or just name) our favorite posts so they can be compiled into such a list. Just a thought! I look forward to hearing people's suggestions!

Thanks, Chris. Good idea. I'll run that past some folks involved with the blog, see what they think.

AphexofCanada, that's one of the reasons this subject came up: Aggregate the most popular posts and series. I can tell through Google Analytics which ones have received the most hits. So that will be part of the equation. Thanks!

This might be a bit different than what you're asking, but for overall organization you should consider pulling the archive (and potentially even new content) into a wiki. Rather than creating a traditional, hierarchical organization a wiki can use simple tags, searches, and interconnecting links between articles to help people navigate topics in the most fluid way possible. Plus, if you want to open it up, the active community that already exists here should be able to offload much of the organizational work and help link, tag, and update archives to keep them as easy to find as possible. There's a well-reviewed Wiki plugin for Wordpress you can check out below if you're interested in looking. I haven't used it personally but it seems a good option. https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wordpress-wiki/#detail

Thanks, Jonathan. I'd love to be able to let the blog community be as involved as possible in helping to shape the content to maximize its utility. I've added your suggestion to the list. Thanks!

For your event management you may want to check out Eventbrite (www.eventbrite.com). I've used it for managing courses in the past and it works quite well. You need to do a bit of set up, but it's got a lot of options (including the ability to sell tickets) and some nice mail-out and attendee management functionality. Failing that, Facebook and Google+ have event capabilities, but not sure you can sell tickets through either of them. One other thing - have you thought about doing Google Hangout seminars? You can get up to 10 people on a video chat - could be a good way to run short seminars to audiences spread wide geographically (I'm based in Spain for example). Hope that all helps

....meant to add to the above comment. For the New User section (I am one - and new to screenwriting), I think the article you already have here is a perfect set of introductory content: https://sites.google.com/site/scottdistillery/if-you-are-a-beginning-screenwriter. If you just group those articles under a section called something like "Getting started" and put a link in your left hand nav that would work for me.

Scott, just a less technical thought as I tend to browse a lot of old posts from GITS - I feel like even some things on the list on the left could be further divided/organized into subcategories so it's easier for us to find specific posts (perhaps by clicking on the main heading and seeing the subs) Examples: main heading: Writing a screenplay (under which you would have a list: how i write a screenplay, how they write..) On Character/About Character(all your character series posts according to content) Spec Script sales (as a category of its own and you would have to click it for the list with the years) The reason this thought came up is because I was looking for your 115 action verbs series and couldn't find it.

Also regarding the four day workshops, can't we register for them the usual way through the SMC site (or maybe I am being dense and don't understand the exact question?)?

My name suggestion, Go Into The Archives. And top of the list of essential resources should be all those great interviews you've been doing, and the 'How they write a script' section.

Regarding The Quest in other cities, you could partner with local film co-ops or organizations--Raindance comes to mind, especially for Toronto (where I'm based), but I know they're also in many other cities.

Why not drop all of it into a free PDF/E-Book for easy reference? Just a thought.

Since you love Campbell maybe you could organize your extensive database as a tribute to him and Jung associating your topics to a certain character archetype. My suggestion: Hero(es) (everything associated to your blog's readers and writers that had a remarkable achievement) • 2008 Spec Script Sales Analysis • 2009 Spec Script Sales Analysis • 2010 Spec Script Sales Analysis • 2011 Spec Script Sales Analysis • 2012 Spec Script Sales Analysis 30 Days of Screenplays • Interviews – Audio • Interviews – Video • Interviews – Written • Daily Dialogue 2008 • Daily Dialogue 2009 • Daily Dialogue 2010 • Daily Dialogue 2011 • Daily Dialogue 2012 • Daily Dialogue 2013 • Daily Dialogue 2014 • 80s Movies • The Definitive Spec Script Sales List [1991-2012] Mentor (your positive take on screenwriting that is not related to a ongoing or past project) • 1, 2, 7, 14 • 30 Things About Screenwriting • A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2010) • A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2011) • A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2012) • Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs • How I Write A Script • How To Read A Screenplay • If you are a beginning screenwriter… • Keys To The Craft: Think Concepts. Watch Movies. Read Scripts. Write Pages. Live Life. • Midnight Musings • Movie Story Types • Scene Description Spotlight • Scene-Writing Exercises • Script To Screen • The Business of Screenwriting • The Spirit of the Spec • The Theology of Screenwriting • Writing and the Creative Life • Writing Mantras • Great Characters • Great Scenes • Hidden Movie Gems Shadow (if 'Mentor' is a compilation of your inner Ariel, 'Shadow' will be for your Caliban :) ) • Bitter Truths • So-Called Screenwriting ‘Rules’ • The Definitive List of Clichιd Dialogue Ally(ies) (Mentoring associated to other sources or your analytic input based on other sources) • Hollywood Tales • How They Write A Script • Joseph Campbell Quotes • On Writing • Rod Serling On Writing • Screenwriting 101 • Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Loos & Emerson (1920) • Showrunner Rules from TV writer-exec producer Jeff Lieber • Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” • The Story Behind Script Coverage Herald (news about your ongoing and past projects) • Deep Focus: The Go Into The Movies Project • Dispatches From The Front Line • Dispatches from The Quest [2012] • • GITS Interviews • GITS Reader Questions • GITS Script Reading & Analysis • GITS Twitter Conversations Trickster ("gossips") • PDF Script Download – Free and Legal

Take a look at Eventful and its Demand It! feature for "performers" (it has an education category). From the FAQ: Performers post the Demand widget on their own websites, MySpace Page, and Facebook Page in order to ask their fans where they should tour. --- To view your Demands, just click on the third tab found beneath your performer picture called "Top Demands." That will show you the Top Ten Demanding cities. To view the full list, click the "View all Demands" link beneath the 10th city. You can also send a message to the Demanders of a specific city or region. Near the upper-right corner of the page, you'll see a gray box containing "Performer tools." In that box is a button that says, "Send a message to your fans." Click on it and you'll be able to choose a mile radius from a specific city where you can send a personalized message to your Demanders to announce news or an event. Unfortunately, Eventful doesn't have ticket sales/management capabilities, so you'd need Eventbrite or Brown Paper Tickets or some other site when you actually schedule your workshop in a given city.

I love change when and if it is necessary... your site works fine... easily navigated for everyone.. Writers are supposed to be smart out of the box people.. Keep up your inspiring work... you are the man..

Scott, for handling registration and sales of workshops try http://tixato.com. It's built by my friend Chris Ashworth who also developed Qlab. Of all the people I know in the startup world, he's one of the most devoted to building a company that helps people solve their problems rather than building a company just to sell. And he has great customer support if you run into questions or problems.

Don't have time to thank you all individually, but thank-than-thank you all for your suggestions! Some great ideas and just a wonderful response. Creative juju for all of you. Whooosh!

When I'm not writing I make the $ writing code and building wordpress sites. If you want to stick withing wp this plugin might be the right choice for your registrations. http://eventespresso.com/features/