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Every story fits within a genre such as Comedy, Thriller, or Action. It’s important to know what genre you...

Too many screenwriters focus exclusively on the goals of the hero, but don’t forget about your villain. Your villain...

What’s more important? Character or plot? It depends on what type of story you’re writing, but generally, plot should...

What’s the best way to keep an audience’s attention? The two most common ways involve interesting visuals or interesting...

How do you tell a true story? It’s easy, you don’t tell the literal truth. Instead, you dramatize the...

Every great movie focuses on a single theme. Every bad movie creates so many loose ends that nothing seems...

Every story has a hero and a villain. The hero is the person we want to win. The villain...

Most screenwriters focus myopically on the hero’s goal. That’s fine, but what makes a story great isn’t whether the...

The real villain isn’t just a single person or evil organization, but something that goes much deeper. The real...

You can learn from the past on how to write screenplays by studying what has worked before, and what...

No story should be predictable because then the audience loses interest. To make your plot unpredictable, you need plot...