Story Analyst Dan Calvisi used to only reveal the inner workings of his method to his students and script consulting clients now but he’s sharing his template in his new eBook: Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay, available as a download purchase directly off his on his Act Four Screenplays website.

If you have the name “Huston,” any door in the film industry will fly open… or will it? We’re sure you’ve heard the myth a million times: It’s not what you know; it’s who you know. Pull up a bar stool while Jeanne Veillette Bowerman blasts that myth out of the water.

SAVE THE CAT has redefined how Erik Bork looks at types of movie stories, in a way that he thinks can be really helpful to writers. He believes Blake Snyder’s “genres” speak to the main question professional readers are asking: “Is the main character’s problem (and plan) big, compelling, and entertaining enough?”…

The next chapter of our Script Secrets assignments, CONFLICT! Every scene in your script should have conflict… that way we can explore character. Screenwriting is dramatic writing. It’s about people with really big problems which will be solved through emotionally charged action or dialogue scenes. Script contributor William Martell is here to help you develop stronger conflicts in your work. Try the assignment at the end and see if it helps with your writing!

A long time ago, in a galaxy not that far away, audience members only occasionally had the opportunity to dig more deeply into an expanded universe of a movie. This passage into that world beyond the film is defined by a concept called transmedia.