Prologue
Everything in life is perspective. When it comes to screenwriting, there are so many different perspectives that it’s difficult to weed through the many “gurus” who all seemingly have the answer to the perfect story and screenplay, to discern what resonates with us individually and which philosophy or model works for us as we develop an idea into a story and a story into a screenplay.
With the prevalence of the Internet, and Google being both a noun and a verb, anyone can “Google” and readily see that there are allegedly only seven basic plots (www.easywaytowrite.com) when it comes to developing stories. However, another site will reference seventeen (www.fiction-writers-mentor.com), another will reference thirty-six (www.ipl.org), ...
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