Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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Elements of Act II:1, overview

Elements of Act II:1, overview

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Alexandra Sokoloff
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Elements of Act II:1, overview
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For Elements of Act I, go here:

Act II, Part 1 is the second quarter of a story: the second half-hour of a movie (pages 30-60 in a 120-page script), or pages 100-200 in a 400-page book. As I’ve said, we’re dividing that long Act II into two separate acts, Act II: Part 1, and Act II: Part 2.

We’ve already set up a whole lot in Act I. So these first few Key…

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