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

theme of the soul mate — that there is someone out there who is destined for you, and that the Universe will guide you to that person.

hundreds. The real question is: “What’s a good story idea?” I see two essential ingredients: a) What idea gets you excited enough to spend a year or two or more of your life completely immersed in it? and b) Gets other people excited enough about it to buy it and read it and even maybe possibly make it into a movie or TV series with an amusement pa

Generally what we hope for the character is the same as her or his INNER NEED.

ASSIGNMENT: Write out premise lines for each story on your master list, and for your own Work In Progress (WIP).

Notice that this pattern naturally divides itself into two separate and self-contained sequences: 1. Getting in (which of course will be spelled out in a PLAN), and 2. The confrontation itself.

Always trust something that pops into your head as belonging on your list. The list tells you who you are as a writer. What you are really listing are your secret thematic preferences.

So lesson to be learned here? Make your reader want the love interest as much as your hero/ine does.

The writers often just have the characters say flat out what we’re supposed to be afraid of. Spell it out. It works.

Act Three is basically just two things: the FINAL BATTLE and RESOLUTION.