The Screenwriting Blog

I attend bi-weekly meetings with a local writer's group, we chat and share ideas and it's actually pretty refreshing. Last week the conversation was about screenwriting and I have to say, they asked me questions I hadn't really thought about, and one of them was how do you begin to write a script , say you have an idea and you believe it would be a good movie, how do you start. I was quiet for a moment, how (the hell) do you start?! Well, I finally came up with something and I thought I'd share it if you too have a story to tell and don't know how to start. Hence the (very, very) basic step-by-step guide to starting a script. 1. Write your story in whatever format you prefer, be it narrative, bullets, drawings if you're good at it, a short story, whatever. Just put it on a piece of paper so that it doesn't die in your mind. 2. Outline the plot. This is where you take the story as a whole and divide it into the "moments" or parts of the story (begin