Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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Working with Story Structure Patterns: What KIND of Story is It?

Working with Story Structure Patterns, Part 2

Holiday Homework: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

The Hunger Games, Act II, Part 2

First Chapters

The Hunger Games - Story Breakdown Part 2

Working with Master Lists

The Hunger Games – Act I breakdown

Lost

Nanowrimo Now What?

Top Ten Things I Know About Editing

Expanding on Act III

The Three-Part Act III

Act II: Part 2 - Questions and Prompts

Creating STAKES, Part 2

What do you want from me?

Is my story idea BIG enough?

Silence of the Lambs breakdown, part 4

Silence of the Lambs breakdown, part 3

Act II: Part 1 Questions & Prompts

Silence of the Lambs breakdown, part 2

Elements of Act II:1, overview

Silence of the Lambs - full story breakdown

Working the 3-Act, 8-Sequence Structure

Act I questions and prompts - for Nanowrimo or not!

Stakes

Scenes that make you cry

The Writer's Journey: The Descent

Trick yourself into writing

Why are you doing this?

Rage

Act I: Inciting Incident/Call to Adventure

Three essential questions about your protagonist

ENCANTO breakdown

Practice Story: ENCANTO

Practice Story

What sells a book to TV / the movies?

Your First Draft Is Always Going to Suck

SETPIECE SCENES: Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!

Nanowrimo Now What?

You can learn from the bad ones, too.

Ten Romantic Movies

Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day

Essential Story Elements: Into the Special World

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