I Have This Great Idea. Now What?

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Getting to Know Your Audience

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Knowing What Happened Before Your Story Began: Creating the Backstory

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Identifying the Tone of Your Piece

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Establishing Your Story’s Time Clock

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Deciding When to Start Your Story

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Getting to Know Aristotle: A Dramatist’s Best Friend

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What’s It All About?: Writing an Effective Synopsis

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Crafting an Eye-Opening Opener

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Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Beginnings

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Muddling through the Middle

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From Lights to Camera to … ACTION!

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Status: Where’s the Upper Hand?

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What’s Your Problem? Introducing Conflicts and Obstacles

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Exposition: From Clunky to Creative

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Determining What to Write from What You’ve Written

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Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Middles

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Are We There Yet? How to Know When You’re Done

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Danger Will Robinson: Threats to an Otherwise Healthy Plot

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Ultimate Success: Tracking Three Movies through Their Triumphant Conclusions

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Portrait of a Person: Constructing a Physical World

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Constructing an Internal World

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From the Inside Out: Making the Inner World Visible

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Diction: What’s in a Word?

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Name That Tune: Crafting Your Character’s Music

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Letting the Listener Lead

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Putting It Together: Characters in Conversation

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Screenwriting and Ethics

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Screenwriting and Responsibility

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A Gift for Gab: How to Conduct a Meaningful Interview

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