Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
START, EVERY TIME, WITH THIS INVIOLABLE RULE: THE SCENE MUST BE DRAMATIC. it must start because the hero HAS A PROBLEM, AND IT MUST CULMINATE WITH THE HERO FINDING HIM OR HERSELF EITHER THWARTED OR EDUCATED THAT ANOTHER WAY EXISTS
David Mamet • David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
Make sure you build contrast and conflict into each one.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot
Page 25 is the place where I always go to first in a screenplay someone has handed me (we all have our reading quirks) to see “what happens on 25.” I want to know 1) if anything happens and 2) if this screenwriter knows that something should happen. And I mean something big.