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Imagine story where a man wakes up, drives to work, does his job, and goes home. If nothing out...

One way to outline a story is to focus on the beginning and ending scene because these two scenes...

Far too many writers write boring scenes. The most common problem is they try to mimic reality, but reality...

Never write realistic dialogue because realistic dialogue is boring. Just record a typical conversation and play it back. Real...

There’s a huge difference between a great movie and a bad movie. In a bad movie (“Argylle”, “The 355”,...

Here’s one way to write a boring scene. Try to mimic real life and write a scene that duplicates...

It’s easy to come up with an idea for a story. However, it’s hard to turn that idea into...

If you analyze major scenes, you’ll notice they actually have pretty simple goals. In the scene below from “Back...

Watch a bad movie and you’ll see scenes that seem to exist for no other reason than to show...

When you’re learning anything for the first time, you won’t be very good at it. In fact, you’ll probably...

If you can’t write a compelling scene, you won’t be able to write a compelling screenplay. Far too many...