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Any time you watch a mediocre or bad movie, look for a theme. You probably won’t find one and...

What makes a good comedy? Some people might think funny actors or funny scenes, but study any great comedy...

It’s easy to focus on your hero and create a story solely around the hero’s actions. However if you...

Every hero has two goals. The first goal is the most obvious one. The second goal is the real...

Divide every story in half. In the first half (Acts I and IIa), everything appears to be going according...

The quickest way to write a bad screenplay is to have multiple character who either exist solely to help...

Watch episodes of the original Twilight Zone series that ran from 1959 to 1964. Because TV show budgets were...

Before you start writing anything, take a moment to make sure your story has an interesting dilemma. An interesting...

The way to tell an interesting story is to use a four-part story structure like this: Problem occurs Solution...

When author Michael Blake wrote the screenplay “Dances with Wolves,” nobody in Hollywood cared. So Michael Blake rewrote his...

Every story needs a hero. In novels, you can have multiple heroes but in movies, you need one hero...