6Structure
The great screenwriter and author William Goldman said there are three things you need to know about screenwriting—structure, structure and structure. His book Adventures in the Screen Trade is one of the most inspiring books about writing for the screen that I’ve read. And he was right—screenwriting is, first and foremost, all about structure.
So whence cometh this structure dictum? Or, in modern parlance, sez who?
Obligatory Thanks to the Greek Guy: How Aristotle Made It All Clear
That would be Aristotle. The Greek philosopher and rhetorician wrote some very cool books—among them Poetics and Rhetoric—where he examined plays, poetry, physics, philosophy, the physical world and pretty much everything. The part of what he said that’s ...
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