Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Act II: Part 1 —Essential Elements, cont.

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Alexandra Sokoloff
Apr 28, 2023
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Continuing our discussion on the elements you tend to find in the second quarter of a book or script— no matter what genre you’re writing in!

Even though we talk about the Three-Act Structure, I always look at it and teach it as four acts.

Whether you’re writing a book or a script, it’s incredibly useful to think of Act II as two separate Acts, which we’l…

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