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Beginners Guide To Screenwriting - Shannan E. Johnson

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Screenwriting - Is There a Difference Between Outlining and Structure?

The first idea of the story is, go at your own pace. When a writer is outlining a screen play, does that mean they are creating structure at the same time? Yes, exacty. They should be looking to understand what scenes make up my normal. And when i say normal, that means the everyday life of these characters,. Like we're all living our normal lives every day. So now you're asking yourself in the outline, what scenes am i using to show my character's normal life? Right until we get to the inciting incident, which is the thing that's going to crash into that normal life and create change. therefore causing a goal or a problem.

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