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22 Ways To Improve Your Screenwriting Author : Hal Croasmun Submitted : chinese writing class27-09-05 ::    Word Count : 952    Popularity:   68 Tags:   screenwriting, screenplay, screenwriter, scriptwriting, Hollywood, writing, write a screenplay    Author RSS chinese writing classFeedWhether you are trying to win contests or sell your script, it is important that you take advantage of every opportunity you can to increase your chances of success.Some people have estimated the odds of a good screenwriter selling a script to be chinese writing classin the neighborhood of 1 in 5,0. What if you could cut that in half just by one action? Now, you’re at 1 in 2,5. Then, what if you could cut that by 1/5th by taking a series of actions. Now, you’re at 1 in 5. And if you continue on that path, sooner or later, you’ll get to 1 in 10 or even 1 in 2.If you don’t believe that, let me ask you this: What are chinese writing classthe chances d search for what they did well. Read for a contest and see the difference between the winners and the ones that didn’t make it.3. Take a screenwriting class. I can easily recommend a few.4. Get feedback on your writing.5. Critique another writer’s scripts.6. Join a screenwriting group.7. Take your favorite screenplay and chinese writing classtranscribe it, noticing the choices the writer made.8. Select a technique to improve and use it in one or more scenes.9. Write the same scene a completely different way.- Reverse a scene or character- Increase the stakes- Change who prevails in the scene- chinese writing classUse a twist to change the end of the scene- Put the characters in a worse position10. Have another writer write one of your scenes in a completely different way.11. Take a character to an extreme to see what other possibilities are available.12. Take a line of dialogue or description and rewrite it 10 different ways or more.13. Stretch chinese writing classyourself: Give your character an unsolvable problem and then solve it.14. Pick a scene in a movie you like and write it. Once you have completed it, read the writer’s script for that scene and see how he or she wrote it differently.15. Watch a movie, stopping it at the end of each scene. Write down what happened in the scene, how the characters changed, what was the in and out points, and what was the most interesting part of the scene.16. Take your best idea and top it in some way! Sometimes, it is not about the chinese writing classwriting. It is about the thinking and the breakthroughs and getting used to coming up with fresh ideas. Force yourself to top your best ideas on a regular basis and soon, you’ll have the best ideas in Hollywood.17. Find out what a producer or reader wants in a script. This can shift your chances dramatically. It may save you from writing something that has no chance of success.18. Take an acting class.19. Do a read-through with actors.20. Shoot a short on DV. For anyone who has done this, you’ve had the experience of seeing actors bring your script to life. Until you do, you can’t imagine the amount of pride and embarrassment you’ll experience. But directing even one scene will change how you write.21. Give yourself permission to write from your heart with no holding back.22. Decide that you will constantly improve your writing until you are one of the best screenwriters there is.There you are. 22 ways to shift the odds of your success. Many of which do not even require that you leave your computer. If you’re serious about writing, I wouldn’t let a day go by without doing at least one of the above. A 1% improvement every day is a 365% improvement over the next year. Keep doing that and sooner or later, you’ll be in Charlie Kaufman’s league — making those 7-figure deals.Author’s Resource Box Hal Croasmun is a writer/producer and the author of 33 Ways to Break into Hollywood. He publishes the ScriptForSale newsletter with articles about screenwriting and interviews with A-List http://ci.ntu.edu.sg/eng/Programme/Pages/Detail.aspx?event=d15fa75b-c201-4169-a617-e98da490c73b