Sublime

All great drama is character-based, all enduring drama is character-based, all popular drama is character-based, and all plausible drama is character-based.

Keep it second person present tense and use strong, unique verbs that capture tone, emotion, and character.

he creates interesting characters, he gives them goals and there’s always urgency.

find visual expression for their inner conflicts.

The art of story is the dominant cultural force in the world, and the art of film is the dominant medium of this grand enterprise. The world audience is devoted but thirsting for story. Why? Not from a poverty of effort. The Writers Guild of America script registration service logs over thirty-five thousand titles yearly. These are only those that

this is drama; every action has a consequence.

Good dialogue, then, is a manifestation of behaviour, not an explanation of it.

For screenwriting, Jon recommends The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler, which he used to determine if Swingers was structurally correct. He is also a big fan of The Power of Myth, a video interview of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers.

Our absolute necessity to impose order is where narrative structure begins.