Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 366
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 366
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Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart is designed to fill a significant and widely ignored gap between the theory and the practice of screenwriting. The approach of this text is equally applicable to all modes of writing popular fiction, including movies, television, novels, and stage plays.
Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heart helps new writers:
- discover their personal artistic voice.
- learn the overlooked creative methods all professional screenwriters actually use to build their stories.
This textbook will take the reader on a journey of self-discovery, one that reveals the core beliefs and life lessons that constitute the unique creative voice of every writer.
CHAPTER 1 Why Plot Never Matters
CHAPTER 2 The Trouble With Most “How To” Books on Screenwriting
CHAPTER 3 All Creative Ideas Spring from Our Core Beliefs
CHAPTER 4 Creating Characters’ Overall Personalities and Flawed Beliefs
CHAPTER 5 Creating and Using the Specific Character Traits of Your Flawed Protagonist
CHAPTER 6 The Importance and Dangers of Feedback and Criticism
CHAPTER 7 Writer’s Worldview—the Invisible Baseline of All Personal Storytelling
CHAPTER 8 The Beginning Steps in Writing Your Story
CHAPTER 9 Before You Start Writing: Avoiding the Most Common Character and Genre Mistakes
CHAPTER 10 Let’s Start Writing! Basing Your Story Structure on Theme, Not Plot
CHAPTER 11 Story Outline/Treatment: Personal Injuries
CHAPTER 12 Format
CHAPTER 13 Common Character, Dialog, and Scene-Building Problems
APPENDIX A ScriptShark Coverage/Story Analysis for Acts of God
APPENDIX B Full Feature Screenplay, Acts of God