Prewriting your screenplay a step-by-step guide to generating stories
Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronge...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2019
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index
- Part, Act 1 Story origins
- chapter 1 Premise
- chapter 2 Genre
- chapter 3 The brainstorm
- part, Act 2 Character creation
- chapter 4 Character development
- chapter 5 Protagonist
- chapter 6 Antagonist
- chapter 7 Can the protagonist be the antagonist?
- chapter 8 Love interests
- chapter 9 Mentor
- chapter 10 Dual mentors
- chapter 11 Allies
- chapter 12 Final reflections on characters
- part, Act 3 Culmination
- chapter 13 Some assembly required
- chapter 14 From concept to story
- chapter 15 Loglines
- chapter 16 Three-act structure
- chapter 17 Reverse engineering from plot to premise