Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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How to break your book

How to break your book

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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Alexandra Sokoloff
Mar 10, 2024
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If you’ve been around writing and writers for some time, you’ve probably heard the TV phrase: “Breaking a story.”

(Not the same as in journalism, where “breaking a story” is being the first to publish or broadcast a piece of news!)

On the most basic level breaking a story means outlining: brainstorming and writing down the whole story (the script, the epi…

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