For those who believe screenwriters need to know exactly where the story’s going to go, Columbia University screenwriting professor Guy Gallo says: Nonsense. In this excerpt from his new book, ...

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

I have been in the outline phase of my best script for what feelsl ike months. I just want to get the idea down, but I have been tripping up when it comes to the middle and other points. So in order ...