Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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Nanowrimo: MIDPOINT
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Alexandra Sokoloff
Nov 16, 2023
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The MIDPOINT is one of the most important scenes or sequences in any book or film: a major shift in the dynamics of the story.

All of the first half of Act II of your book or script is leading up to the crucial Midpoint (around page 60 in a movie or script, around page 200 in a 400-page book).

  • Something huge is revealed

  • Something goes disastrously wrong

  • S…

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