The Screenplay Outline Workbook A Step-By-step Guide to Brainstorm Ideas, Structure Your Story, and Prepare to Write Your Best Screenplay

Do you have a movie idea you're excited to write, but - for one reason or another - you're stuck?One thing that can help you quickly go from idea to finished screenplay draft is a strong plan. A map of the story. In other words, an outline.But where do you start?The Screenplay Outline Workbook is designed to give you a clear and manageable set of tools, steps, and exercises so you can turn your ideas and inspiration into an outline and write your best screenplay - whether it's your first or your tenth.Use the workbook to design a new story from scratch, or jump straight to the topic you need to get your work-in-progress unstuck. With 30+ tools, exercises, and prompts honed through years of teaching workshops and working one-on-one with writers, this workbook will help you:- Generate new story ideas- Choose a strong idea as the first step in writing a great screenplay- Build a sturdy foundation for your screenplay by finding the essential elements of the story- Discover the organic three act structure and major plot points that create the framework for the story and screenplay- Design compelling characters that push the protagonist along a meaningful character arc- Try one or more suggested outlining methods for mapping out your story?and so much more!When you're done you'll have more than an outline - you'll have a rock-solid foundation for your screenplay.