Unlock the Secret Truth: Why Screenplays Defy Every Formula You Thought You Knew
If you create multidimensional characters, conflicted, confused, driven, uncertain, and all the rest, they will resist formula because they are living, dynamic entities who can surprise us.
And when a story plays against type and expectations, that’s when a writer is on the path toward a great screenplay.
Again from David Seltzer: “The whole thrill of being a writer is to do a prototype every time out. And you can do it, something that nobody ever wrote before.”
A prototype every time out. In other words, meet the story on its terms, allow it to breathe, enable it to go where it needs to go, not cram it into some sort of predetermined formula.
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