how to write a screenplay

How to write a screenplay depends on many factors, but there are two, major components:

1.  Mechanics

• Know the standard format
• Get the software
• Grammar
• Binding and Stock Covers
• Query and Email letters
• Filling out forms and following instructions for screenplay contests
• Computer literacy

2.  Imagination

• Character
• Plot
• Dialogue
• Scenes
• Read actual movie scripts
• Watch movies and how they were imagined by the writer
• Draw from self-experience or from observation
• Adapt non-fiction such as biographies or fiction such as literary works

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