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It’s Never the Plot

November 17, 2016

Many people try to come up with a great story. While a high-concept idea can attract attention, a great screenplay is more than a plot....

Two Stories in One

November 14, 2016

Your story is never about one plot but two or more. One story creates a dull, one-dimensional movie. Two or more stories create a fully...

Making a Scene Interesting

November 11, 2016

There’s a tendency for novice screenwriters to write lots of dull, filler scenes that simply move the plot forward and do nothing else. This is...

Structure in “Spotlight”

November 8, 2016

Study “Spotlight,” which won Best Picture in 2015. This film is a perfect example of a well-structured screenplay where every character changes somehow in the...

Two Halves of a Story

November 5, 2016

Study any movie and you’ll find that it easily divides itself into two halves. In the first half, roughly 60 minutes in a two hour...

Final Draft 10

November 2, 2016

If you want to write a screenplay, you don’t want to waste your time customizing an ordinary word processor like Microsoft Word or Pages. While...

The Elements of Horror

October 31, 2016

Horror films have a built-in audience, especially right before Halloween. From a production point of view, horror films are cheap to make since they generally...

Conflict and Resolution

October 27, 2016

Every scene needs conflict. Conflict doesn’t always have to mean two people shooting or punching each other in the face. Sometimes conflict can be subtle....

Ideas Sell, But Execution Delivers

October 24, 2016

To sell a screenplay, you need a great idea. Unfortunately, great ideas alone are never enough. To turn a great idea into a great movie,...

The Thread of the Symbol of Hope

October 21, 2016

One of the biggest problems of writing any story is finishing the middle. It’s easy to come up with an interesting beginning and a gripping...

The 15 Minute Movie Method