Scott- Not only do I admire you for all of the work and time that you put into the blog, but now you're analyzing ALL of the content that you put forth to make sure that it's as helpful and interesting as possible for your readers -- Wow! YES to both of the below! I'd definitely contribute and would love to be a part of the discussion with other writers. I also agree that lessening your daily blog posts and increasing your input into the discussion is a great idea as well. I've been reading for years and look forward to reading for many, many more. What if each day / several times a week / once a week, I post a question targeting where you are in your writing process? Like: Who’s having trouble with your story’s ending? Is anyone struggling with a logline? Are you just hating your story lately? As people would post in comments, I would make it a point to respond. * How about a monthly script workshop? The idea is each month, I’d have the good folks at the Black List suggest a script from a GITS follower that shows promise, but needs work. With that writer’s approval, I would upload the script for people to read — including myself — then we would workshop the script on the site with me moderating and steering the conversation. This would not only benefit the script’s writer, it would also help participants develop their own critical analytical skills.

GITS is excellent, with more content than I can ever catch up on. I can't log in every day, so daily posts are sort of wasted on me. I like the present general mixture of post topics, but I'd be just as happy with fewer new posts. The Saturday links are a bit off-topic for me; those could go, too. The little Google group that aarthi and jmelikidse and john.hoernschemeyer, et al, started in March of 2014 is still swapping updates and status notes. I joined them in December after the Scene Master Class. I think that (and my F2F workshops) cover the progress swapping function. Not a bad idea; I just feel I've got it covered. I like the idea of the monthly guided script critique a lot. I could say more, but to be brief, I'll just say: (1) Reduce posting to an easier level and then, please, use part of the time freed up to do something that you find fun. (2) Let me know how I can help.

Thanks, Brooke, for that feedback.

Thanks, Jeff. Re the Saturday Hot Links: Believe it or not, there are some stalwart fans of that. If I continue it, I am thinking about refashioning it so it only includes entertainment business links.

Please don't drop the Saturday Hot Links! Refashioning it to include only entertainment business links sounds fine though. That's one of my favorite times of the week - sit down early Sunday morning with hot tea and read SHL:-) I'm interested in more about the periscope idea. Sadly, Only a few months ago I moved from iphone to android, so i don't know what that app does. (There is an android app called periscope but it is completely different in functionality.) Would it be recorded so others could watch later? One last idea. I don't know if this is feasable technically but can you track the number of visits to various posts and see which ones are popular and which ones aren't? If so, one suggestion is to experiment with those a bit?. Thanks again for the great work, Scott.

Scott, agreed, with the daily dialogue. For some reason I tend to look up something to post on those, even if I know it's unlikely to be used. But they are fun exercises. One thing is that I'd like to see an option to post non-dialogue scenes, i.e. subtext. Now I know these are sometimes coming from good actors in disregard to the script. But they had to start with a script. Perhaps a dialogue suggested something sub-textual without dialogue. Or perhaps the writer intended no dialogue. But these scenes are often the most powerful of all. And you cover subtext in your classes. And yeah, less content with more focus on the best stuff might be good.

You could also add RSS feeds form Variety, IndieWire, etc., perhaps on a right sidebar, like this.

I'm going to keep SHL for the foreseeable future, but starting this week, it will be focused solely on entertainment business, an aggregation of news and related items from the preceding week. The original iteration derived from my curiosity about... well... everything... and so SHL came to feature lots of different kinds of links. But based on feedback and trying to find ways to slice some expenditure of time from this particular part of my schedule to enable me to do other things on the blog, I think for now I'll just focus on The Biz.

Believe it or not, a few years back, we ran a week's worth of non-dialogue dialogue Daily Dialogue posts. If I had even a few minutes, I could go through archives and find that week, but you'll just have to trust me we did that. I can certainly do that as a prompt for a scene-writing exercise. FYI I will be running that challenge again next month.

Scott, what about changing up how the bi-weekly Script Analysis is done? What if each week, if this is possible, along with the scene-by-scene breakdown two scenes from the screenplay are posted for reading and breakdowns. We could follow the story as it develops. I think there would be more discussions on transitions, subtext, scene and character development, cliffhangers etc. When we would come across a scene that is a significant structural point or the beginning of a new sequence, that would be discussed that week in which it occurs. I used two scenes a week just as an example. Perhaps it could be three, or four, or whatever's best. I think this approach might lessen the workload required to follow along in the series and hopefully spark more discussions. Another idea: a weekly community idea pitch. Similar to the April story idea a day series, but instead of a new idea each day we as a community refine and develop one idea throughout the week. We continue refining it until it's agreed it's a high concept logline worthy of being made into a movie. Or we could just take a vote at the end of the week and be done with it and move on. Or let Producer Max have the final word. Greenlight or remain in development hell. Not suppose to be competitive or anything, just get us riffing on ideas, crafting loglines for practice, learning about what everyone thinks is high concept or not, etc.

I like both those ideas. One issue with the first one is it would likely work best is we could import the actual scene into the blog post. That's a challenge for a few reasons. One, copy/paste from PDFs does not work. Would have to convert PDF to a Word file or similar, then transfer to Word Press. Likely lose formatting, but that's not the end of the world. Assuming we can figure that out, I wonder if doubling up each day with that type of analysis would be too much. What if we did the one week with analysis like we already do, then at the end of the week, we identify five key scenes from our work on the script, then one scene per day the next week: Breaking down each scene and discussing per your thoughts. Re story idea: We could approach it like we are a development group. We could start with one of the story ideas from the 180 I've posted over the years. Or some other source. I like the idea we do some sort of green light or pass at the end of the week, anything to get people motivated to work their creativity. I'll add these to the list. Thanks!

I remember that! It was May 14 - 20, 2012. Here's one: http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2012/05/daily-dialogue-may-17-2012.html

I love this blog Scott. It's so inspirational, and I hope it never stops. However, the feature you've mentioned I'd love is the monthly script workshop. It would be great to see all this theory put to good use. Can you imagine it - the first GITS screenplay that gets sold? Awesome. Thanks Nick

Actually, Nick, there have been plenty of scripts that have sold by writers who have been longtime and ardent followers of the blog. Not a direct influence on specific stories, but something to be happy about nonetheless. But I agree about the monthly script workshop, it's something I hope to test out, see what the reaction is, and if successful, make a recurring feature. Thanks for your feedback, Nick! And for following the blog!