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One of the biggest mistakes novices make when writing a screenplay is that they don’t give their characters any...

A one-trick pony is something that only has a single redeeming feature. The problem is that an entire movie...

In the old days, bad stage plays used to have a maid and a butler talk about the problems...

Every story begins with the villain failing to achieve a goal. Sometimes this failure is because something happens but...

The best way to write a story is to stay focused. Every story falls into a specific genre such...

You can structure a typical 120-minute movie into four acts of 30-minute increments like this: Act I — 0 –...

Your hero needs to gradually change over the course of the story. In Act I, you must introduce the...

In the old days of Victorian-style stage plays, a butler and maid would come on stage and set a...

Backstory is what happened to your main characters before your story even begins. Since backstory is rarely shown, it’s...

In the beginning of every story, the audience must know what the hero wants. Typically in the first fifteen...