Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!): STEALING HOLLYWOOD: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your BEST Book
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Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!): STEALING HOLLYWOOD: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your BEST Book
· ASSIGNMENT: Create a section in your notebook, and write out and begin looking for your favorite examples of character introductions.
Alexandra Sokoloff • Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!): STEALING HOLLYWOOD: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your BEST Book
As human beings we are primarily visual creatures (and no, I don’t just mean men. All of us.). So? Use it. · ASSIGNMENT: Make a list. Visual or not visual — what are some of your favorite book and movie openings of all time? · ASSIGNMENT: Now look at your own opening pages. Are they visual? Do we know where we are? Can you make that location, and
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ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Make two blank structure grids, one for the movie you have chosen from your master list to analyze, and one for your WIP. You can just do a structure grid on a piece of paper for the movie you’ve chosen to analyze, but also do a large corkboard or cardboard structure grid for your WIP. You can fill out one structure grid while you
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Remember that in a love story, the moment of seeing the loved one for the first time does not just begin the inner — or sometimes outer! — desire, but it’s often also the INCITING INCIDENT and/or CALL TO ADVENTURE of the story. So next, let’s look at that critical story element. · ASSIGNMENT: Brainstorm — or be on the lookout for — examples of how
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· ASSIGNMENT: Pay attention in class or in professional networking situations to see how authors, screenwriters, and aspiring writers present themselves and their writing. Who stands out? Who presents an intriguing sense of the kind of writing that they do? Who sparkles? Who makes you want to know more? Are there ways that you can communicate your
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· ASSIGNMENT: Those of you who already have your book or script outlined or who have a first draft may well want to take some time to track the opposing PLANS throughout your story.
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· ASSIGNMENT: Write out premise lines for each story on your master list. · ASSIGNMENT: If you already have an idea for your book, also write a premise for your own Work In Progress (WIP). Try to include these story elements: protagonist, antagonist, conflict, stakes, setting, atmosphere, and genre.
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Generally, PLAN and CENTRAL STORY ACTION are really the same thing: the Central Action of the story is the carrying out of the specific Plan. And the CENTRAL QUESTION of the story can be summed up in general: “Will the Plan succeed?”
Alexandra Sokoloff • Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!): STEALING HOLLYWOOD: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your BEST Book
· ASSIGNMENT: What is the Into The Special World moment, or scene (s), in your WIP? Are you giving that moment the magical resonance it deserves?