The Intuitive Screenwriting Wheel VS The Hero's Journey VS The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet Here you can find the Hero’s Transformation Outline step by step. Please have in mind two major rules about archetypal wheel progression: 1. Every act is a closed system and yet intertwined with the rest of the wheel. This is really important for understanding the four-act structure! 2. Every step or transformational stage on the wheel is dual/oppositional. One archetype exists only in rela

#screenplay #writingcourse #storytelling Dear Screenwriter, I just wanted to announce that Intuitive Screenwriting is in the process of starting a new screenplay and if you are writing one yourself, I think it would be great to support each other. From now on, every post is going to be a new lesson with all the important guidelines: theory plus homework. You'll then have one week to implement those steps/elements/ideas into your screenplay. You can do it now in real time, or

#screenplay #conflict #psychology #Bergman #Spielberg An idea, a situation or a character should all be based on a conflict in order to be suitable material for a screenplay. Conflict lies in between opposite emotional stands and it is basically the heart of dramaturgy, something you have to have in mind at the very beginning when creating a story. As you may have already noticed, one of the main purposes of this blog is to examine every screenwriting truth, which we have rea

#story #writing #screenplay #theaterplay #archetype For every single writer (screenwriter or a playwright) the first and most important question is always, “what am I going to write about?” Young filmmakers ask me this question again and again: “what is the perfect story for me in this moment of my life?” The answer is not a straight-forward one. The choice should be wise, elegant, obvious, relevant and important for you and for the audience, and it should be yours and yours