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Right from the beginning, you audience has to know what goal your characters want to pursue. Sometimes the goal...

“The Giver” was a popular young adult novel about a community that eliminates emotions in favor of sameness. The...

Watch sequels and they often feel inferior to the original because they’re not complete stories. If you never saw...

Exciting and memorable stories don’t have the most action, but the greatest emotional appeal. To create a story with...

The best stories move us emotionally, so if you want to create the best story possible, start by tapping...

Divide a typical 120-minute movie into eight segments and you get eight 15-minute segments. Each 15-minute segment the hero...

Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The screenwriting world is no different. You...

The next time you watch any two hour move, time your watch to the one hour mark. When you...

In every story, someone is haunted by the past. Often times it’s the hero, such as Rick in “Casablanca”...

Every hero faces a seemingly impossible goal. Sometimes that goal can be earth-shattering such as in “Terminator 2” where...

When your story has a strong theme, it has a strong focal point that everything revolves around. Your story...

When coming up with an idea, many screenwriters focus solely on a high-concept idea such as “What would happen...