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Start Your Story with the Beginning and the End

Many writers have an idea for a story but often no clear idea how to start or end it. If that describes your dilemma, stop...
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Create Your Story in a Note Taking Program

Many people have an idea for a screenplay so they rush out to buy and start writing in a special screenwriting word processor right away....
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Make Sure Your Story Works Before You Start Writing

One mistake many people make is they try to turn an event from their own lives into a screenplay. This typically means the writer obsesses...
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How to Write a Scene

When writing a screenplay, the last thing you should do is touch your screenwriting word processor. Yet that’s usually the first thing most people do,...
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In Every Scene, Nothing Goes As Expected

Here’s how to write a boring scene. Introduce a scene where the hero expects something to happen. Then show that expectation happening exactly as the...
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What Does Your Story’s Action Mean?

When most people come up with an idea for a story, they focus on the action. By making the action as interesting and unusual as...
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Two Key Ingredients to Making a Great Story

Read this article about “The Shawshank Redemption”, a movie that initially bombed at the box office but has since grown in status as one of...
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Why Should Anyone Care About Your Story?

When creating a story, the first step is defining why anyone would care about your story. To make people care about your story, you need...
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Summarize Your Story in the Beginning

The opening scene must grab our attention but more importantly, it must summarize what the whole story is about even if we don’t quite understand...
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Isolate the Moment Your Hero Changes

In every good story, the hero must change. In every great story, the hero changes by making a risky decision that changes their life for...
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