As you discover how to write character profiles that are truly useful to your process, you may start outlining connectionsbetweenyour characters, too. For example, a link between the deceased in a murder trial and the suspect's parent (the mother/victim connection in Grisham's book). ...
In this article, learn ten secrets about how to write a story, and more importantly, how to write a story that's good.
3. Write a strong main couple As you might expect, romance is an extremely character-driven genre, so your main couple needs to have your readers head over heels (so to speak). Certain character types have thrived in Romance for decades and, naturally, they play into stereotyped gender rol...
You should also write out full biographies of each of your main characters, almost like you’re making a social media profile for them. Explain their demographic information like age, physique, career, etc. but go even deeper and ask yourself questions about their dreams, romantic interests, am...
How I Learned to Write a Screenplay In college, I took a class withJohn Wilder, a veteran Hollywood film and TV writer, who began the class by writing,“STRUCTURE! STRUCTURE! STRUCTURE!”on the chalkboard. “What's the most important part of a screenplay?” he asked at the beginning of...
So you want to write a film script (or, as some people call it, a screenplay – they’re two words that mean basically the same thing). We’re here to help with this simple step-by-step screenwriting guide.
For some writers, character motivation comes easy — their instinct is to think about how their characters would behave in a certain situation (and not how they think theyshouldbehave). If you find yourself struggling to bring your characters to life in any given scene, try usingthesecharacter...
The most common request that you can receive from video producers is to remove the annoying noise such as rumble or hum from a finished piece of video, no matter if it is a corporate piece, a short film, a short commercial, or more. In most cases, recording high-quality audio during ...
“Another is to approach it in terms of flaws. What’s your character’s greatest strength and what might undercut that? If you come up with a character profile of attributes, think what might rub up against each one. After all, characters are human (usually) and we can think about rea...
3. Love Story Character Archetypes 4. Obstacles 5. Tropes Love Story Masterworks to Study How to Write a Love Story: 7 Steps But first, whatisa love story, really? What’syourplot type?Find out with our new Plot Type Assessment, a short quiz that acts like a personality test for your...