As of next Monday, August 1st, I will have blogged here at Go Into The story for 3,000 consecutive days. And sometime in late August, we will hit the 20,000 post mark. As someone who is passionate about movies, TV, and storytelling, and as the official screenwriting blog of the Black List, my goal has been to create the largest free online screenwriting resource anywhere. Have I hit that goal? Well…

You want coverage of the spec script market? Go Into The Story has the most comprehensive aggregation of spec script sales dating back to 1991 with detailed annual analysis dating back to 2008 when I launched the site, plus a 20 part series: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs.

Screenplay and movie analysis? The site has in its archives week-long analysis series on over 100 scripts and movies including dozens of scene-by-scene script breakdowns.

Posts on the screenwriting craft? Go Into The Story has hundreds of posts on great characters, great scenes, and comparisons of notable scripts to their movie scenes.

How about screenwriting theory? Over the years, we’ve delved into Aristotle’s “Poetics”, my favorite screenwriting ‘gurus’ Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, as well as series on character types, movie story types, and much more.

What about the business of screenwriting? Got you covered.

Creativity? Yep.

Interviews with professional writers? Here, here, here, and my own interviews here.

And all of it… free.

If there is a more comprehensive online screenwriting resource, I’ve yet to see it. I mean, check out the archive links below:

Much of the site’s success — over 10 million unique visits since launch in 2008 — derives from the Go Into The Story community of readers. From authoring guest posts to Daily Dialogue suggestions to scene-by-scene breakdowns to the tens of thousands of comments drilling down into subjects to great depth, GITS followers have been a constant source of creative input… and for that, I thank each and every one of you!

As always, I welcome your suggestions as I’m open to try anything which can potentially benefit readers in terms of their growth as writers. If you any ideas, email me.

There are some dark, depressing corners of the online universe and that includes places where writer congregate, some people more interested in diminishing others. In the eight plus years Go Into The Story has been in existence, I have tried my best to hew close to my original vision for the site, a place where writers could find both legitimate, inside information along with inspiration that is both open to limitless possibilities but also grounded in the realities of living and working in the entertainment business.

In other words, this is a place for creators, not haters. A site which challenges writers with this clarion call: Aspire to inspire. God knows, the world could use some of that!

So as we approach another big benchmark — 3,000 consecutive days of blogging — I encourage each and everyone of you to follow your bliss, find your creative rapture, that which enlivens you, and do that.

Let me top off this post with a blast of creative juju for the entire GITS community:

KAWHOOOOOOOSSSHH!!!

Onward!