Long-form posts on craft, product decisions, and what we're learning from beta writers — not release notes dressed as articles.
Raw cast size counts names. Speaking load shows how many of those names actually carry the conversation — and the gap gets much wider as casts grow.
Read postPage count is one number. Pacing is where that number goes. Measured across thousands of features, screenplays do not pace evenly — and the middle is not supposed to look like the open.
Read postA 105-page feature is not a 105-minute movie. It is a cold-read estimate. Treat the number as a signal, then check it against practice.
Read postName the job. Stay if versions are not the pain. Import if they are.
Read postCoverage judges the read. A breakdown tags the shoot. The useful first pass is an inventory, not a score.
Read postWhy Canvas bets on lossless markdown instead of locking prose in a proprietary graph.
Read postPlot for the room’s bible. Canvas for Notion/Docs-shaped knowledge around the show.
Read postBundled, Anthropic, or OpenAI — who holds the key, who pays the provider.
Read postFast, balanced, frontier — what each tier is for, and what a pass draws.
Read postPlot for screenplays, Canvas for everything else — and how to tell which one you need.
Read postA practical guide to taking one structured screenplay from White pages through production handoff.
Read postSkills edit nodes, not chat transcripts.
Read postImport once, name every read, export when the room asks — not before.
Read postHow we prioritize what ships while Plot is young.
Read postWhat changes when AI proposes edits instead of paragraphs in a sidebar.
Read postThe habit of naming a moment matters more than the button that creates it.
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