when we can chart the growth and change each character undergoes in the course of a movie, it’s a poem.

It’s a truism that the easiest people to sell are salesmen. I

Unless it’s about the press, unless your movie involves a worldwide problem and we follow stories with characters all over the world, and it’s important for them all to know about each other, take a tip from me… and Steven Spielberg: Keep the Press Out.

Screenwriting is like solving a puzzle over and over. You get faster with practice.

The B story begins on page 30.

In most cases, nailing the midpoint will help guide you — and it is the one decision you must make before you can go on.

The 10 types of movies I have categorized here are:

We must be beaten and know it to get the lesson.

The classic fusion of A and B