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At the end of every scene, you need to leave on a cliffhanger to entice the audience to keep...

Novices often do information dumps where a character vomits out information solely for the audience to understand the story....

A good rule of thumb is that if the action and dialogue in a scene could take place in...

Every story is about resolving a single problem. In “Soul,” that question is what is a soul’s purpose? In...

Conflict is the heart of any story. If there’s no conflict, there’s no story because there’s nothing for the...

Novices often write boring scenes. Imagine someone reading your screenplay for the first time and randomly jumping to any...

Far too often, screenwriters write scenes that serve no other purpose than to provide information to the reader. This...

The biggest and most common flaw of most screenwriters is writing boring scenes. The scenes are boring for two...

“27 Essential Principles of Story” by Daniel Joshua Rubin offers incredibly useful tips for creating stories with rich, detailed,...