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Hollywood is risk-aversive so they constantly try to turn books into movies. The logic is that if a book...

Watch a bad movie and it typically focuses on a single genre such as a bad action movie that’s...

Some traumatic event in the past motivated your hero and/or mentor. Now your story is all about your hero...

The past needs to intrude into the present. Then part of the story is how the hero is trying...

What makes many screenplays hard to complete is that the screenwriter runs out of ideas. One way to make...

Read most novice’s screenplays and they tend to write lots of boring scenes where nothing happens. The way to...

The quickest way to write a dull story is to make your hero always good. This creates a flat,...

Scenes act like building blocks that carry the audience from the beginning of your story where you pose an...

Imagine a man walking into a bank, depositing a check, and then walking out. Boring. That’s because there’s nothing...

Hollywood loves to focus on action that involves multi-million dollar budgets. Then they wonder when these multimillion dollar movies...

As soon as possible, make it obvious what your hero wants because that desire will drive the rest of...