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@zakwilliams Your dad was an amazing man. Robin made a tremendous, powerful, and positive impact on my life. My heart and prayers are with you and the family, Zak.

Today would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. This season carries gravity. Father’s Day, his birthday, and the anniversary of his passing all fall within 60 days. For me, grief has no straight path. It revisits, reshapes, and rises when I least expect it. But alongside it lives a legacy built on generosity and kindness. He made people feel seen. Gave permission to feel deeply and to laugh through pain. That mission continues. To those carrying loss right now: you’re not alone. Happy birthday, Dad. Love you forever.

@BenJohnson2018 I usually write #2's form, but for our reference: Source: Hacker, Diana and Sommers, Nancy. A Writer's Reference. 9th Ed., Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018, P4-a.

Let me see something quick... Which one of these two uses of an apostrophe is correct, 1 or 2? 1. James's shoe. 2. James' shoe.

@storyandplot Awesome your subscriber base has grown so much. Go Coogs 🐾

Tonight, my beloved Coogs play for a National Championship. Win or lose, tomorrow, I'll share with 8k+ subscribers what screenwriters can learn from Kelvin Sampson's inspired coaching. Surprisingly, it's a lot. Interested? The link to subscribe is in the replies. 👇

@storyandplot This is great. Yesterday's post coupled with today's post answered a major question for me. Thanks, Tom!

A plot-focused dramatic question like "Will the hero stop the bad guys?" or "Will the girl get the boy?" or even "Will Tony win the dance contest?" gives you tremendous advantages. 1. It gives your structure a narrative spine. 2. The clear good/bad outcomes help with tension. 3. As you get closer to answering the question, momentum naturally picks up. No, you don't need one. Plenty of great stories have character-based dramatic questions. But it makes your job so much easier with one that you should have a very compelling reason to go without it.

@storyandplot So many make it sound like a chore or a grueling process. Is it strange that I love writing/storytelling and love to learn more to improve? Like music, I call it "work" but that's because I'm trying to avoid criticism for calling it my play time.

The Nichol Fellowship's message to all the emerging screenwriters out there working to get their material noticed...

@storyandplot This is right up my alley. Thank you for this.

These are always exceptional, and I learn something new in every single one. The amount of time and effort Jonathan puts into these for our benefit is immense and truly impressive,

@jonathanwstokes Thank you for this. Since I'm a musician, I write, setup scenes, block, and edit doing this simply because I know no other way. It makes sense to me and flows with the metronome in my head. I thought I was cheating, so I kept it as my little secret until now.

The final video of "Season 5" of my YouTube channel is about Prosody. Prosody is a huge part of what makes dialog and prose beautiful. I hope you enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=FqyJGO…

@storyandplot This! 👆one of my favorite parts

Your Answers Don’t just make something up. Don’t treat it like homework and answer just to answer. These things should mean something to you. Dig deep. Make it personal. Make it honest. Make it vulnerable. No one will ever know how close to home the character is. But they will feel it.

Too many screenwriters try to tack on a character "arc" to their plot, and so it falls flat. Don't do this. Story is transformation. That is the journey itself. If you're struggling to unify your screenwriting this way, here are three questions to help. 👇

@storyandplot Congratulations, Tom! Excited to hear more 🍿

I just found out my screenplay DADDY'S GIRL is planned for production next summer. No one told us this. We found out through the casting call at my agency's talent department. 😂 That's far away, so we'll see if it happens. But a very funny way to find out the plan!

@storyandplot Great advice!

The three primary ways to get your screenwriting read: 1. A phenomenal logline. 2. Pre-scrutinized. 3. Direct personal relationship. Don't go hurling your pages out into the void. Have a strategy. *

@TJHuntley Right back atcha', bro!

@loumires Looking good, bro!

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@TJHuntley Bravo 👏👏👏

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@storyandplot Golden!

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I struggled with Act 2 for years. It was the barren desert where my screenplays went to die. What changed for me was realizing the role of Act 2 in the story. Embracing this was a huge breakthrough in my screenwriting. Here is how I attack Act 2 now: 👇

We spend so much time on the primary structure in our screenwriting that we too often leave the subplots to chance. Tomorrow, I'll share with 6k+ subscribers how to structure out a subplot as carefully as the primary plotline. Interested? The link to subscribe is below. 👇

Thanks for this awesome book, big brother ❤️

@storyandplot I was rewatching the iconic movies I’ve always loved. What you wrote here rings true with all of them.

One of my biggest realizations from studying the structure of screenplays was seeing just how simple the plots are. Early on, we tend to think we need more plot in our screenwriting. But we don't. 99% of the time, we just need better scenes.

@storyandplot I can’t ever hear your great advice enough. In fact, I keep them open when writing as a constant reminder and as a form of measuring device.

I spent the first half of my career resisting loglines. I hated them and wrote them AFTER I finished a screenplay. This was dumb and my career suffered. I finally embraced them, and it’s made a huge difference. This is what I learned over this time, #screenwriting 🧵

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