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What You’re Up Against
I thought I should give you a flavour of the competition, for when you’re feeling a bit down. Below is the copy...
The Story Revolution
Nafa – Choctops Meeting: 18/2/08 (Report by John Haly, Thank you to Tony Chu) Karel -a Belgian producer and...
How important are format and style?
The first step for many aspiring screenwriters is to purchase a piece of pricey screenwriting software. Some call it...
The Three C’s of a Scene
Your primary focus is on story and less on writing scenes, sharp dialogue or gripping action. Inevitably, though, once...
Inciting Incident: Event, not Action....
When talking about story structure, many people talk about where exactly in the story the structural element needs to...
Inciting Incident: Definitions
Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the...
The Inciting Incident
The first guy to write down that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, was Aristotle. About twenty-four...
First, Break All the Rules
When I asked this student which one thing she remembered above anything else, she replied: “That you can break...
