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February 8, 2017 0 Comments

The Opening Scene is the Hero Your Screenplay Deserves

by Tim Long (@ScreenplayStory) In the competitive world of screenwriting, where industry readers judge your script in the first few pages, openings are a vital part of a successful screenplay and film. Not only are they important first impressions of your writing ability, they also serve a variety of narrative

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October 20, 2016 0 Comments

How Plot Can Kill Your Character

by Tim Long (@ScreenplayStory) Every story begins at your Initial Stimulus – that spark of an idea that captured your imagination. The thing that got you excited and revved up. That initial flash of creativity you just knew would make for a great movie idea. Initial Stimulus is also something

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September 15, 2016 0 Comments

Heart: The Emotional Glue that Binds Us to Story

by Tim Long (@ScreenplayStory) With over twenty-five years of professional story development and screenwriting experience, and nearly two decades of teaching screenwriting at the MFA level, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate on hundreds of screenplays and films. During my career, hands down the most common problem I see in

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August 30, 2016 0 Comments

The 3 Psychological Characteristics of an Engaging Character

by Tim Long (@ScreenplayStory) If you analyze screenplays and films you are bound to find commonalities that exist among the ones that are successful and the ones that aren’t. A consistent commonality I see time and time again is that of character. In particular, there are three ubiquitous yet distinguishing