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Dear friends,I'd like to share with you the details about Superstar Screenwriters' first Interactive Learning Contest.To participate, please send me a private message or email me at training [at] superstarscreenwriters

In some cases - not always, just sometimes, for a certain category of beginning or emerging writers – writing directly into format triggers self-censorship. (A) It results in strained, unimaginative

In the course of your story, the protagonist may make one or several moral errors which can set up a crucial, major moral error in the culmination.If your protagonist is

I don't think one avoid being manipulative in any form of *mainstream* storytelling because it's very essence is mass manipulation. What you can do is – (A)#mainstream #hollywood a) Stick with

False Inciting Incident: In some stories the main conflict kicks in only in the second act – but the story requires extensive setup, and without some kind of inciting incident first

Suspense Flashback:If you must include flashback in your story, design it for suspense, treating it as a proverbial Hitchockian "conversation with the ticking bomb underneath the table".Set the ticking bomb