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Stories don’t exist in a vacuum. When two characters fight, fall in love, or learn from each other, they...

Watch any popular James Cameron movie and you’ll notice a pattern. HI movies aren’t just about spectacular special effects...

Every scene needs a purpose to provide new information to the story. However, far too many novices simply write...

Hollywood tends to pump out an astoundingly large number of bad movies. What’s surprising is that these bad movies...

Listen to any good song and you’ll notice that the same notes are played repeatedly with minor variation. Stories...

Here’s the number one mistake novices make in writing a screenplay. They write scenes that do nothing but explain...

Pick any movie and divide its running time in half. In a two hour movie, the midpoint scene occurs...

Every story has a structure. By identifying the main scenes in every story, you can create an outline for...

In the first half of any story, the hero gradually starts getting a better life. Then at the midpoint...

Every story consists of two halves. In the first half, the hero’s life starts out in a dead end...