Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

What KIND of story is it? (A Star is Born: Daisy Jones & the Six, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Babylon)

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Alexandra Sokoloff
May 20, 2023
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We’re working with Act II: Part 1, so it’s time to do another post on STORY PATTERNS - which you really start to see at work in this second quarter of a book or script. The KIND of story, or STORY PATTERN, is different from genre or subgenre.

There are hundreds of story patterns in books, movies, TV and plays - and when you start consciously spotting th…

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