Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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SETPIECE SCENES: Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
What is a Setpiece? This is one of the most important craft and career game changers that authors can take from filmmaking, and of course is critical…
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DIE HARD - story breakdown
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
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The Bad Version - scene work
The Bad Version is a way of brainstorming scenes that takes the pressure to be perfect off, so ideas can flow freely.
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Is AI the end of writers—or the end of humanity?
Yes, I've been experimenting with Chat GPT and its uses and implications for me as a novelist (and I hope you are/will, too!). And yes, writers are…
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Inciting Incident: Something has to happen, immediately
The Inciting Incident, Inciting Event, or Call to Adventure is the real start of your book or script. It is a life-changing event that will challenge…
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What is High Concept?
Understanding “high concept” is so important to your writing career that you might want to stop everything you’re currently doing until you have a firm…
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Rewriting: Structure patterns
Let’s talk about rewriting, and how to use structure patterns to help you revise and elevate your first draft.
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Book. Or no book.
I’ve had a lot of comments this week from people about not having time to write. But most of us are making multiple choices every day that aren’t…
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Building Character: Inner Desire vs. Outer Desire
One of the most important steps of creating a story and for creating a satisfying CHARACTER ARC is to identify these two opposing impulses: —The…
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Are you going to write that book or what?
I am in the grim, grimy, grungy, grueling, grinding (got the picture?) grip of what you might call the HOME STRETCH of this book.
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Do you need a book editor? (And how the **** do you find a good one?)
Writer/editor Katy Loftus has just done a couple of terrific posts that are vital information for anyone who's just starting out as an author (or…
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