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Reverse Engineering Your Script

Reverse Engineering Your Script

I recently heard Jeff Kitchen, script consultant and working writer speak. Many pundits, including Jeff, have suggested writing your script backwards to help iron out plot kinks. By doing so, writers can remove extraneous scenes from their scripts which don’t serve the main plot. However, there needs to be strong outline or scene breakdown in place for this process to work. Don’t try it too soon…

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36 Dramatic Situations

Developing & Energizing Your Plot from the book Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting by Jeff Kitchen

Supplication

Deliverance

Crime Pursued by Vengeance

Vengeance Take for Kindred upon Kindred

Pursuit

Disaster

Falling Prey to Cruelty or Misfortune

Revolt

Daring Enterprise

Abduction

The Enigma

Obtaining

Enmity of Kinsmen

Rivalry of Kinsmen

Murderous Adultery

Madness

Fatal Imprudence

Involuntary Crimes of Love

Slaying of a Kinsman Unrecognized

Self-sacrifice for an Ideal

Self-sacrifice for Kindred

All Sacrificed for a Passion

Necessity of Sacrificing Loved Ones

Rivalry of Superior or Inferior

Adultery

Crimes of Love

Discovery of the Dishonor of a Loved One

Obstacles to Love

An Enemy Loved

Ambition

Conflict with a God

Mistaken Jealousy

Erroneous Judgment

Remorse

Recovery of a Lost One

Loss of Loved Ones