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A good logline should include the main character, the objective, and the major source of conflict
Carson Reeves • Scriptshadow Secrets (500 Screenwriting Secrets Hidden Inside 50 Great Movies)
Try to have a beginning, middle and end in your key scenes (use of “threes,” like three acts), and end on a surprise.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
if you find yourself with a set-up that takes more than 25 pages to introduce, you’ve got problems.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
This is one of the best ways to make a dialogue scene pop.
Carson Reeves • Scriptshadow Secrets (500 Screenwriting Secrets Hidden Inside 50 Great Movies)
Margins should be at least 1.25 inches on the left and at least 1 inch on top, bottom and right. Smaller margins will look you're "cheating" to fit more on the page. 7) Your dialogue blocks and the character name above them should be tabbed in, not centered. The dialogue block should be 3 - 3.5 inches wide.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way. We will henceforth refer to this as “the Cornfeld Principle.”
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
this is drama; every action has a consequence.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘the morals of the
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
symmetry and balance is sought in a story structure,