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Imagine a scene where the hero doesn’t know what to do so he does nothing. Not a very exciting...

Every scene must grab the audience’s attention right from the start and give a hint on what the conflict...

A scene tells a mini-story with a protagonist (not always the hero of your main story) trying to achieve...

Riding a roller coaster to the top of a hill is the set up. The pay off is the...

An astonishing number of novice screenwriters seem to be creating screenplays that set up sequels for their own story....

In the 2012 time travel movie “Looper,” the hero is a hit man who kills people sent back from...

The other day I saw a bad movie where the opening scene started like this. First, an airplane taxis...

There’s no story without a villain of some kind. Even if that villain is a force of nature, you...

How can you tell if your story is any good? If it doesn’t involve death of some kind, your...

When Disney was making “Frozen,” they ran into a roadblock. They didn’t know what to do about the hero...