Imagine you get this note after someone reads your screenplay: "I just didn't connect with the characters."It's a tough note to hear, because chances are you know everything about your characters. You know what they like, what they fear, how they grew up, and their favorite color and food and song. But no amount of character sheet creation or imagined backstory will help you if you aren't executing several basic story elements that will make your reader care about what's happening to them.These are five reasons your readers might be tuning out, and what you can do to fix them. - YouTube www.youtube.com Your Character Wants Something, But We Don't Know Why It Matters A character who wants to rob a bank is a good place to start. A character who wants to rob a bank to support their girlfriend's gender affirming surgery is so much better. A character robbing a bank because of an underlying desire to be loved, accepted, and to make others happy while also supporting their partner—that is incredible. Readers connect when writers dig beneath surface wants to find emotional needs. We don't all want to climb Mount Everest, but we all understand the need to prove ourselves or escape mundane reality. Your character's tangible goal means nothing if we don't understand the emotional need driving it. What does that bank heist actually represent? Once you answer that, you've found your way in.You're Telling Us Who They Are Instead of Showing Us Too many writers create...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 8 October