Read A Movie

Reading good fiction will help your character building and storytelling skills. For your next reading adventure, try getting another perspective by reading a movie.

A screenplay is designed to, as Tom Chiarella says in Writing Dialogue, "suggest rather than determine the interpretation of a scene, to call up the imagination of the reader, to provide a minimal framework upon which the actor creates character. Look at that--suggestion, imagination, minimalism, and character."

You can get screenplays online at places like Scriptfly.com. At DailyScript.com you can pull many of them up in an instant like "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."

There are different screenplays depending on the stage of development:
How to Buy a Film Script: 10 steps - wikiHow

Give it a try. It might inspire some new ideas.



P.S. If you have a friend or loved one who has a favorite movie, a bound script is a great gift. They love it. It never fails!

P.P.S. Amy Harrison writes for Copyblogger how screenwriting can help you:
http://www.copyblogger.com/web-writer/

David Garfinkel studied screenwriting for many years and has some storytelling tips in this thread (and more good stuff from Rick Duris and others):
http://www.warriorforum.com/copywrit...rytelling.html