Best Screenwriting Advice

1st ACT – Get the character up a tree
2nd ACT – Throw rocks at the tree
3rd ACT – Get him out of the tree

Be harder on your characters – be meaner to them (throw BIG rocks at the tree - boulders).

Jump into the middle of a scene and leave early.

Let the protagonist make their own trouble - they set the tree on fire and have to get out.

Every scene should reveal something new.

There. Go write.


“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.” - Martin Scorsese