Trying to figure out a plot for your screenplay can be difficult, but it doesn’t need to be. Just steal a plot from another writer, preferably someone who has been dead for so long that their estate probably won’t have a staff of lawyers on retainer who can sue your butt off. One problem with […]
A screenplay is like a website. If nobody knows it exists, nobody will ever see it and if nobody ever sees it, it can never be sold and made into a movie. Here are some ideas for marketing your screenplay. The traditional way of marketing a screenplay is to write it, find an agent, and […]
Slow and steady progress beats hasty, sporadic effort every time. If you want to succeed, spend at least 15 minutes every day working on your screenplay. Chances are good that you’ll get into a flow and want to do more than 15 minutes, but make 15 minutes a bare minimum and you’ll see massive results […]
A cliffhanger literally mans a point where the hero is dangling off the edge of a cliff and we want to know how he gets out of it. That’s the type of suspense you must constantly build into every scene throughout your screenplay, which pulls the viewer along until the end. In the old movies, […]
Every screenplay needs to start off with an Inciting Incident, every Act begins with an Inciting Incident, and even every scene begins with an Inciting Incident. Now the next question is how do you create an Inciting Incident? Think back to your favorite movie and how it begins. Nearly all James Bond films begin with […]