Prewriting Your Screenplay A Step by Step Guide to Generating Stories 1st Edition by Michael Tabb ISBN 1138482285 978-1138482289

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ISBN 10: 1138482285 

ISBN 13: 978-1138482289

Author: Michael Tabb

Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story’s foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time, building and incorporating each element into the whole.

The book provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct that story base around concepts as individual as the writer’s personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer’s voice. It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay. This is the quintessential book for all writers taking their first steps towards developing a screenplay from nothing, getting them over that first monumental hump, resulting in a well-formulated story concept that is cohesive and professional.

Table of contents: 

Part Act 1: Story origins

Chapter 1: Premise

Chapter 2: Genre

Chapter 3: The brainstorm

Part Act 2: Character creation

Chapter 4: Character development

Chapter 5: Protagonist

Chapter 6: Antagonist

Chapter 7: Can the protagonist be the antagonist?

Chapter 8: Love interests

Chapter 9: Mentor

Chapter 10: Dual mentors

Chapter 11: Allies

Chapter 12: Final reflections on characters

Part Act 3: Culmination

Chapter 13: Some assembly required

Chapter 14: From concept to story

Chapter 15: Loglines

Chapter 16: Three-act structure

Chapter 17: Reverse engineering from plot to premise

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