Screenplay self-review
See what’s working.
Find your next move.
Practical screenwriting tools built to help you see what’s actually on the page — and decide what to do next.
Free with email signup. Includes practical screenwriting guidance, new tools, and occasional Northward Stone updates.
The tool library
Choose where to focus.
Choose a tool for your opening, scenes, characters, dialogue, full draft, or next writing session.
Opening Pages
The First 10
Included in the free toolkit
Assess what is working in your opening pages.
Opening Scorecard
$4.99
Set revision success criteria and compare before-and-after results.
Scenes
The Scene Test
Included in the free toolkit
Review an individual scene.
Scene Rewrite Checklist
$6.99
Diagnose a scene that is not working and plan a deliberate revision.
Characters
The Character Test
Included in the free toolkit
Review the protagonist on the page.
The Character Development Workbook
$6.99
Develop character through desire, pressure, relationships, and choices.
Dialogue
Dialogue Polish & Punch-Up Checklist
$6.99
Test intention, subtext, voice, pressure, and whether each line earns its place.
Full-Draft Revision
First-Draft Screenplay Checklist
$9.99
Work through focused passes on story, character, structure, scenes, dialogue, and the page.
Getting Unstuck
Writer’s Block Reset Kit
$6.99
Identify the block and choose a concrete next move.
Free with email signup. Includes practical screenwriting guidance, new tools, and occasional Northward Stone updates.
The philosophy
One Stone
Forward.
No magic formulas. No promise that a template will write the screenplay for you. Just useful tools built around the work writers actually have to do.
Diagnose what’s on the page. Find what needs attention. Make one deliberate change. Then keep moving.