Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II: Story Structure for Pantsers and Plotters (Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) Book 2)

· ASSIGNMENT: Write out premise lines for each story on your master list. · ASSIGNMENT: If you already have an idea for your book, also write a premise for your own Work In Progress (WIP). Try to include these story elements: protagonist, antagonist, conflict, stakes, setting, atmosphere, and genre.

In Act II, Part 2 we generally see these elements: · Recalibrating the Plan · Escalating Actions/ Obsessive Drive · Hard Choices and Crossing The Line (questionable or even immoral actions by the main character to get what s/he wants) · Loss of Key Allies (possibly because of the hero/ine’s obsessive actions, possibly through death or injury by the

Well, everything you set up in act one regarding your protagonist and their situation should probably be paid off or resolved in act three. The resolution should be causally and emotionally connected rather than the plot going off on indulgent tangents and giving the audience a vague sense of conclusion.

ASSIGNMENT: Take your list of top ten best endings of movies and books, and write down specifically, in detail, what it is about those endings that really does it for you. · ASSIGNMENT: What is your hero/ine’s greatest nightmare? How can you bring that to life in your final battle scene? · ASSIGNMENT: what is the Castle that your hero/ine must stor