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Larry Brody: Make Your Scenes Flow
Larry Brody’s TV Writing Tips & Tricks #2
by Larry Brody
Over my years running various TV series I’ve been amazed at how many professional writers don’t understand the basics of good storytelling. In a nutshell, the trick to working out your plot is to always remember that the scenes must flow from and to each other in a progression that takes into account three different elements. That is, it must be logical, surprising, and climactic.
What this means is that everything that happens must grow out of what happened before. On one level, given the personalities of the characters and the situation they are in, each plot point must be inevitable. And on another level, these inevitable twists and turns must be such that the reader or viewer could never have predicted them.
Writers Roundtable: Jordan Peele, Darren Aronofsky, Emily V. Gordon et.al.
The writers of Get Out, Darkest Hour, Molly’s Game, In the Fade, The Big Sick and ‘mother! get together to educated, entertain, and dish for The Hollywood Reporter.
Hie thyself to THR’s YouTube Channel for more edification and shooting of the shit!
Stephanie Bourbon on the Things Successful Writers Do
LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, reminds us of what it takes for successful writers to get that way. Just the refresher course so many of us need.
No, we’re not saying specifically who but y’all know who you are….
Larry Brody’s TV Writing Tips & Tricks #1
Outlining & Writer’s Block
by Larry Brody
One of the big differences between beginning writers and “old pros” is that beginning writers are always telling me how much they love sitting down at the keyboard and “winging” their scripts, while the pros invariably stress the importance of having a good outline before they start writing.
As an “elder statesman” myself, I’ve tried both methods, and outlining your story is the way to go. In television we spend as much time on the outline as we do on all drafts of the script combined.