Writing the Script

Chapters: Tell me a story - the beginning middle and end Characterization - playing god, making people Conflict - the working substance of drama and comedy supense - romeo and juliet as the cliffhanger content and emotion - the heart has a mind of its own beginning your screenplay ending a dramatic story what am I going to write about next - story ideas basic plots. there is no such thing as an original story dialogue situation comedy tv and four other chapters Read it after recommendation from Dan Calvisi of Act Four Screenplays [...] One of the original (and best) books on screenwriting, Writing the Script (1980; Holt, Rinehart and Winston), even Romeo and Juliet is a suspense story: "Shakespeare told his love story in a sequence of...suspenseful scenes. And in resolving each crisis, he created another! Thus, the progressive tension increased until the play's resolution, which was the lovers' reunion in death."