As we sign off for the decade, we’d like to give you one final list of scripts we recommend—some of the scripts that defined the past 3,650 days for us.  

But, if you’re looking to improve your storytelling sensibility (and, as a writer, shouldn’t you always be looking to improve this?) here are 10 scripts that deepened our feelings, gave us a better understanding of the craft and changed our perception of what is possible in writing for the screen.

If you’re stuck in trying to come up with or build out a plot, why not look at a book like Plotto the way it was meant to be experienced? This means flipping through its 300 pages and trying to find the ideas that jump out at you. I feel it my librarian-ly obligation to encourage you to get out of your house and do a little research when you’re trying to develop a new idea. It’s a fun and unique experience to come to a place like the WGF Library and ask to see some of the older vault materials.