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Here’s the simplest type of story. A good guy is trying to achieve a goal and a purely evil...

Would you ride a rollercoaster that never rose up or dipped down, but just took you on a ride...

Too often, screenwriters try to come up with an original plot that surprises audiences. Here’s he truth. Most stories...

Watch any mediocre or bad movie and the story will often feel forgettable and flat. That’s because the screenplay...

For too often, novices write scenes in their screenplays that serve exactly one purpose: to provide exposition. That creates...

Here’s what most novices do wrong. They come up with a great idea and then they start writing their...

If you’ve ever been on a roller coaster, you know that you start at the bottom, then climb the...

The original “Twilight Zone” series always had a problem. They never had enough money to create each episode. As...

A story is all about change. Who the hero is at the end is completely different than who the...

Many screenwriters write pages and pages of a script, only to realize that their villain is either too weak,...

The three layers of a story are: The idea The action The purpose Look at every bad movie ever...

Read most novice screenplays and you’ll run across scenes where very little happens. The scene exists solely to introduce...