Sublime

Your ACTION-IDEA should be able to move listeners who merely hear it just as they would be moved if they saw an entire movie made from your screenplay.

The contemporary screenplay is a Master Scene work that includes only those angles absolutely necessary to the telling of the story and no more.

as Stephen King has said, “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

create a story design in which every scene is a minor, moderate, or major Turning Point.

from the story.

A lot of new writers spend an inordinate amount of time polishing dialogue to try to fix problems, when the problem is much more likely to lie in structure or

This conflict between who a character is, and who they want to be, is real life’s gift to drama.

Your job as a screenwriter is to throw obstacles at your hero

Character design: