ABSTRACT
This book helps one create an exciting and multi-dimensional story by focusing on the characters' journeys. It focuses on story-telling skills, with an emphasis on classic structure-as it pertains to telling a story through character. Turning ideas into stories is what screenwriters work on every day. Before a screenwriter seeks out the right producer/agent/actor/director to connect to his great idea, he has to come up with a full story. An idea, without the story structure behind it, is not something development executives want to take to their bosses. One of the best and challenging things about being a screenwriter is that it is a profession that relies on personal motivation and self-discipline. One can choose their own time to work: early morning, mid-day or in the dark of night. A screenwriter needs to know films, the ones that are out in the marketplace now and the ones that have been successful in the past.
