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You must write good dialogue if you want to make the characters you have created look real. 
Human beings are naturally endowed with a voice; a voice that allows them to make a speech; a speech that allows them to speak a language; and a language that lets them communicate with one another.
A character in a screenplay is a replica of a real human. It must do just like the human.

You need good dialogue if you want a drive for your story. Good dialogue is the voice of a story. It says what a story is. It gives the story its existence, timing, location and action. It is the name of the story.

You must write good dialogue if you want the hearts and minds of your audience to be drained into the soul of your story.
Good dialogue is the means by which a screenplay or a movie speaks to the ears and minds of the audience. It is the link between the audience and the screenplay.

You must write good dialogue if you want your screenplay to be in the lips of everyone.
After watching the movie from your screenplay, the good dialogues therein would be what the audience would always imitate in their daily life activities. They would wish they were really those characters they saw in that movie. They would always remember the movie. You, the writer of the screenplay will always be their friend.

You need good dialogue if you want to be convinced and satisfied you have really created a world.
Writing a screenplay is like creating a world. A world wouldn't be perfect if there was no communication. Communication is the life of a creation. Once you find out that the world you have created has a good communication flow, your mind will be at rest. You will be so happy with yourself. You will be so proud to say ''I'm the writer of this movie''

A good dialogue is the heartbeat of a screenplay. It makes your screenplay sound.

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Themes are everywhere, but let yours teach a fresher lesson to your audience - Winny Greazy

You must start learning the fundamentals of screen writing. You must be in the ground state so that no one can push you down.

If you want to stop copying people, then you have to start thinking of how to make people copy you.
Write a good piece today! - Winny Greazy

If you follow others, you will never reach your own destination.
#screenplay #scriptwriting #beyourself

If you want to stop copying people's screenplay, then you have to try and make people copy yours - Winny Greazy

If you write what others do write, you will never write what you want - Winny Greazy
#screenplay #scriptwriting

Dear script writer, look more unto the story you have to tell, and not unto the words you need to use

Dear writer, look more unto what you have to teach, and not unto the words you need to use

Let every event around you generate screenplay ideas for you - Winny Greazy #story #scriptwriting

Try and let every event run through your mind - Winny Greazy
#screenplay #story #scriptwriting

Writing is not enough, script writing is king.
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Build your story around your audience; they will love it.

To write a good script is to have a passion for good scripts. Success is simply the passion for whatever that brings that success.

A good structure and lay out for your screenplay will force your reader to start reading it. First impression matters!

Every talent is sleeping inside a man. It is now left for him awaken the one he needs.
Script writing talent is in you. Try and awaken it! - Winny Greazy

You would never know how you managed to finish it if you put your whole mind in writing it #scriptwriting #screenwriting #screenplay.

Verbal argument cannot solve your problem, but writing can. Just write out all your opinion and let your opponent read them.
Save yourself some energy. Be a writer!


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Screenplays for feature films are usually 90 to 120 pages; equaling about 1:30 minutes to 2 hours.
Screenplays for short films are about 20 to 40 pages; equaling about 20 to 40 minutes.

Short films are enjoyed by many. The audience often prefers them to the normal feature films; reasons being that they are short, very thrilling, straight to the point and time saving. The audience will tell you that it will be better to sit before the TV screen for two hours to watch about four short films, than to spend such time watching only one feature film.

Importance and uses of Short Films

Short films have evolved so much that they have gone beyond being an ordinary movie to becoming means of disseminating information about certain issues, discourse, topics, concepts, brands, goods, commodities and services. These short films are designed to teach the audience what they didn't know about whatever thing that is contained in those films.
Government agencies can produce short films to convey information about any of their policies to the grassroots level.
Health institutions can produce short films to enlighten the audience on certain issues about HIV or other human diseases.
Short films can also be like advertisements where advertisers show their brands to the audience.

Let's talk fully about short films that are in form of movies. 

 Short film makers and script writers do take advantage of the enticed audience to always write and produce short movies.
For the fact it is called short film or short movie doesn't mean it is so easy to write and produce. Everything is done for a reason. Also everything has some certain rules which when observed, can lead to success.
Apart from the love the audience has for short movies, there are reasons film makers produce them. Also, there are some certain tips both the script writer and the film-maker learn in order to get the best from their productions.

Reasons for a short film
  • Low budget: 
For a movie to last for nothing more than forty minutes, then everything it shows, every element in its screenplay must be concise.
The characters are not much and their actions and dialogues are very moderate.
This conciseness does not encourage high cost of production as the instruments and equipment needed for the settings are not much.
Most film makers want to get the best with the little they have, so they opt for short films.

  • One man venture:
Making a short film can be a one man venture. One person can write the script, rewrite it, be in the few casts, do the directing and then produce the movie.
Looking for collaborators to produce a feature film can be tiring at times.

  • Bottle-necks:
There are number of stages needed to be passed if one wants to get some Nollywood, Bollywood or Hollywood executives to get involved in making their film or buying their feature film script. As a result of this, they may take personal decisions to boy-cott these long processes to produce a short film by themselves.

  • Information:
In a situation where a verbal enlightenment or a written piece can no longer teach the audience about an issue or a concept, short films on that issue can be written and produced. The audience can easily get the message while enjoying the film.
Advertisers can also use this means to show people what their products are all about.

  • Tutorials:
Just like in the above, a lot of things can be taught through short films. The audience can even learn faster through this.

  • Competitions:
In screenplay writing competitions, competitors are always requested to write and submit screenplays for short films. The winner may eventually have his screenplay produced.

What makes a short film survive?
  • Preciseness and conciseness
  • Simple scenes and settings
  • Straight and active story (no much of flashbacks and dream sequences)
  • Definite story structure
  • One theme exploration
  • Straight to the point


Tips for the script-writer in writing short films

1. Write more on the external conflict between the main character and the opposition. Write less on the internal conflict of the main character. 

2. Assemble and streamline the characters' ventures. Not all the characters should have internal conflicts. You may limit it to just the main character. Too much of internal conflicts can drag the whole story to too many pages.
Before a screenplay comes to an end, all the external and internal conflicts of all the characters must come to an end. This is only obtainable in a feature film.

3. You may not write many details and actions. Just let the moderate dialogues by the characters tell more.

4. Stick to just the main theme. No need to introduce sub themes. It is a short film, it needs to end fast.

5. No much of flashbacks and dream sequences.

6. Do not include settings that may be costly. Remember you may be the one to produce it yourself. Just write a low budget film.

7. Try not to include too many characters.

8. Try and first of all read and understand the topic or the issue at stake before you start writing the screenplay on it.

9. If it's an advert script, be sure to understand what the brand or product is all about.

10. Write with simple words so that the audience can understand.

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Yes, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder; but this is true only when beauty actually radiates from the eyes of the "beholdee"
If the pages of your screenplay do not radiate beauty, then the beholder is as good as being a blind being.
Beauty is light and light is sight.

As a writer, you have no other option than to make your screenplay beautiful.
The eyes are linked with beautiful things, and the eyes do not pass by those beautiful things.
When a reader sees a beautiful screenplay, he will know.

The only way to make your screenplay beautiful is to polish those elements that make it up. If you lay the elements in the correct format, equipping them with all their various colorful, heartwarming and hypnotizing accessories, then your screenplay will be beautiful.

The elements of a screenplay are:

1. Scene heading (flush left from the edge of the paper)

2. Action (same as the scene heading)

3. Character name (indented3.5 from left margin)

4. Dialogue (indented2.5 from the left margin)

5. Parenthetical (left indented3.0 and right margin3.5)

6. Extensions (O.S, V.O) (S.O. directly to the right of character name) (V.O.[narration, reflection] same in O.S)

7. Transition (cut to) (left margin is 6.5. Follow action and precede Scene heading)

8. Shot (angle on, insert) (like scene heading)

Others are;

9. Dual dialogue (side by side normal dialogue)

10. Adlibs (in action line or normal dialogue)

11. Abbreviations (M.O.S, C.G.I, P.O.V) (in action line

12. Montages (series of scenes related and building to one conclusion) (formatted as a single shot)

13. Series of shots (similar to montage, but takes place in one location and concerns same story) (formatted as shot, action paragraphs)

14. Short lines/poetry/lyrics (song lyrics is a dialogue but in caps)

15. Intercuts (used instead of repeating scene heading)

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Once you observe all the rules guiding these elements, you are almost done with writing a beautiful screenplay.
The next thing to do now is to make the elements have values. Making them have values involves encoding in them information which when the audience decode, will be thrilled.
Encode suspense in your story plot. Make your story structure deep in constructiveness. Make the actions unforgettable. Create characters that can ever be mimicked. Write dialogues that every audience would wish they were the characters voicing them. Just make the whole ensemble wonderful. At the end of the craft, you will see every eye watching your screenplay.

Continuing with the beauty of a screenplay,
The beauty of a screenplay lies in the face of its reader.
If a reader looks happy as he reads your script, of course you should know he is enjoying it.

The beauty of a screenplay story line lies in the minds of its audience. The mind says out whatever has been making it joyful. If it was exposed to a good story structure, it wouldn't help but say what it saw. Out of the abundance of the mind, the mouth speaks.

The beauty of screenplay story plot lies in the emotions of its audience. You feel like loving someone or doing something good to someone; this is not without a reason; you watched a good movie whose plot touched your emotions.

The beauty of the sound of a screenplay lies in the lips of its audience. Of course any screenplay or movie with a good dialogue system must be in the lips of its audience.

The beauty of a movie lies in the faces of its audience.
Look at the audience's faces after they would have seen a good movie; do they look happy or not? Find out!


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Screenwriters write for millions of people.
A screenplay is not made for one person alone. Not only one person is meant to watch the movie from a screenplay.

It's left for you, a screenwriter to make everyone interested in your script.
As people's minds, hearts, faces and behaviors vary; so as their preferences to certain things.
Some people love romantic movies, while some others prefer plain detective ones. Some would love to watch epic movies, while some others would go for science fiction movies.
Apart from the genre aspect, some people would like to hear dialogues full of slangs and colloquial languages, but some others would prefer the dialogues full of witty and idiomatic expressions.
Some will prefer white characters, but some others may prefer black or inter racial ones.
Some may prefer actions full of fight scenes with either bare knuckles, guns, swords; but some others may love it full of action dialogues.
Some prefer out door scenes, some others may prefer indoor scenes.

So the question now is;
How can you satisfy everyone's desire with just one screenplay?
The answer is;
Include what everybody likes!

Another question is;
How do you include what everyone likes?
The answer is;
Create branches and varieties inside the screenplay which will eventually terminate inside the same screenplay!

This means you have to create varieties for all the elements in that very screenplay. Some of the components of a screenplay include;
theme, story, action, dialogue, character, scene, location e.t.c.
So, while you explore these components, you keep the main idea for each of them constant, as well as changing and appending varying ideas at intervals. As you append these varying ideas, you are inadvertently accommodating different parts of the components which correspond to what different people like in a screenplay.

For example, if your main theme is about family ties and love, you can at some intervals add different themes; yet keeping the main theme constant. As you do this, you satisfy some of your audience who do not like the main theme. This is like striking a balance between different groups of audience; at a point you thrill one group, and at another point, you thrill another group.

Another example is where you have to create varieties of characters, make the characters have unique ways of voicing their dialogues; make the dialogues encompass different sounds of dialogues the different audience would like to hear; include different kinds of actions, scenes; and then make your story not to be a single story; let it be a universal story. A universal story is a story every single person all over the world want to learn more about.

Just try and make your screenplay be an ''all in one screenplay''. An ''all in one screenplay'' spreads faster. Everybody likes, loves and wants it.

Well one of the ways through which you can succeed in getting varieties of the elements in your screenplay is by increasing your characters' internal conflicts.
There are others ways, but I shall hint you later.

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Highlights are what people ask for in any event that takes place. They are moments that really engaged people's attentions.
Highlights are moments that make you remember anything about an event, whether good or bad.
They can be regarded as the most important point in an event.

Inside your screenplay, see where the highlights are located
  • Story
In the story, highlights are created when the story has a lot of entertainment and strong conflicts.
Audience love to be entertained. Their attention remains undivided when they see the entertainment accompanied by dramatic competition and conflicts. The highlight will lie in the dramas emerging from the competition. The competition is between the main character and his opponents.

  • Theme
In the theme, highlights are created when the theme sends a heart friendly message to the audience. The theme needs to teach extraordinary lessons, apart from the ones the audience have learnt. A fresher lesson will always occur to the minds of the audience.

  • Character
You will create highlights when you alter the physical, biological and psychological normalcy of your characters.
If everything in life was normal, nobody would have or remember anything to complain about. There would be no highlights.
If any of your characters is not normal, or deformed in physical nature, your audience will tend to remember him quickly whenever they hear the name of the movie.

  • Action
Great actions are the main highlights of a screenplay or movie. The intensity of the highlights will be more if each of the great actions are performed in a distinctly unique manner. Every action should not have the same pattern. The actions need to be differentiated so that they will create a clearer picture in the minds of the audience. The actions do not need to be mixed up.
Above all, the actions need to be active, continuous and mind blowing.


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Script writing is all about the passion to make what you love doing, seeing and feeling come alive. It is an internal response to the external activities.

Your screenplay will teach you how to live a good life. As you write those stories, you also learn from them - Winny Greazy

Sometimes you need to think just like your audience.

What you can write is inside and around you. Just pick up your pen and start pointing them out. #writingtips

You can't just perceive things and then keep quite. You've got to say something about them. You've got to write about them - Winny Greazy

You don't just call it a ''good screenplay'' ; you call it a picture of excitement.

You must write a great dialogue if you want to make the characters you have created look real.

Related short stories make up a whole screenplay. Your daily events make up these short stories. Write a screenplay today!

You are the only one who knows what you can write. Writing is from the mind. #writeascreenplay

If there were no screenplays, nobody will go to the movies. Life will be boring.

If you know how the audience feel when they sit before a good movie; that's the feeling you should use to write your screenplay

Sometimes you need to think just like your audience #screenwritingtips

You cannot write a good piece if you are always reluctant to write. Determination and Consistency matter a lot.

Success is a 'step by step' venture. Screen writing is also a 'step by step' venture; one scene at a time - Winny Greazy

Are you looking for stories for your screenplay? Just start writing the story of your life. Stories for your screenplay will surface from it.

Everybody can write. It only takes you to write better #greatwriter

After reading your screenplay; if the reader doesn't ask any questions, then you wrote a good screenplay.

Good screenplays leave no questions un answered - Winny Greazy

A good screenplay pulses with emotions.

If you can manage to write the first scene, why not continue with the other scenes? Screen writing should be an addiction. Smoke it!

A good screenplay is always in resonance with the heartbeat of the reader.

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From the tail of a story to the head of the story

The reason why many people may be lazy to write a screenplay is because they take some ideas that come to them for granted. We live in an environment where every moment is a story, every sight is a scene, every activity is an action and every day is a screenplay.
All the things that happen in a day can get one a full screenplay. Every sight we behold can result to great scenes. Our minds are ever active and it records everything we see and feel. All these things we see and feel store in our minds as ideas waiting to be harnessed and channeled into meaningful ventures.

Whenever anyone has a scene in his mind, he can develop the scene into a full screenplay.
Let us consider a scene that fits the very end of a story or a screenplay.

Perhaps a scene where a lady finally and happily says "I do" to the man she had ever longed for.

Another scene; where the hero takes the last gasp of relief after shooting the villain dead.

Another scene; where a young man places a banquet of flowers on a grave, wipes off his tears, puts back his sun shade, walks to his bike and rides off.

Or another scene; where two friends, a boy and a girl looks into the paper containing their school exam results, jump up in joy and happiness, and finally kiss and hug each other passionately.

Whenever an idea about an emotional scene of an end of a story comes to your mind, it's possible you can track it back to its beginning.
To achieve this, the questions you need to ask yourself are;
"what resulted to this scene?''
''What initial scenes caused this very last scene?"
''Why is this scene so emotional?"

Once you begin to answer these questions, you will see yourself already getting a complete screenplay.

A lot of scenes and events come together to produce the very last scene.
Two friends can't just be jumping up in happiness for nothing.
A young man can't just place flowers on a grave, wipe off his tears and assume his normal happy facial expression for nothing.
Something may have caused their actions.

Last scenes are not spontaneous; they are triggered by the first scenes. Your job is to find out what triggered them.
As you do this, you will be convinced that it's possible to write from the end of a story back to the beginning of that story.


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Cold screenplays are those screenplays whose elements are not sensitive and responsive enough to represent and build up the screenplays. They are screenplays which begin in a dull sequence, continue in a moody sequence, and then end in a despicable sequence.
A lot of things characterize cold screenplays; starting from their story structure and theme, to their actions and character build up.

Stories in cold screenplays are not caused by a strong desire for them.
Think of a screenplay which the story starts from a character's story telling. Not that something strong elicited his telling the story, but just because he feels like telling it; or just because some kids ask him to tell them a story. He sits down and relaxes. Then the kids will gather and sit around him. He then clears his throat and starts telling the story. Now this story forms the bulk of the screenplay.
Nothing is wrong with storytelling, but one thing about it is that it doesn't break the activation complex which a screenplay needs to push its content to the minds of its readers. It makes the reader tend to be waiting so much for the main thrilling part of the whole story. This makes the reader loose his interest on the script; this is an example of a cold screenplay.

A good screenplay should be situated on a rolling story line and actions; and not on a static one.
A screenplay structure is like a stone rolling down from a hill. Everything about a screenplay's story line and actions is on-going; it's on transit. Writing a screenplay story is like writing from the middle of an exciting story full of suspense. Something had caused the present scenes; something very strong, something disturbing, thrilling, overwhelming or embarrassing.

Actions in cold screenplays are not spontaneous. They do not happen on their own. They do wait until they are talked about by the characters, and afterwards permitted to occur.

Normally, actions are a drive for a screenplay. They are the reason a screenplay moves unto the next scene. As a result, an action is a scene of its own which brings about another scene which is still an action. Action is the skeleton of a screenplay and a screenplay cannot stand without its support. The support the action gives runs throughout the course of the screenplay without being permitted to do so.

Cold screenplays sometimes forget they need actions upon actions for them to forge ahead in a thrilling sequence. Well, that's why it is a cold screenplay; don't blame it.

The characters in cold screenplays do often seem not concerned. They look not committed in making the whole screenplay sequence look real.
Their dialogues tend to be weak and do not create strong emotional attachments.
They do not look original to the proceedings of the screenplay. They always seem to be apart trying to voice the actions instead of allowing the actions to voice them.

Anyway, it's clear that writing a screenplay that shines is not that too easy, but it's better to struggle hard, spend many days and then achieve it than writing a cold screenplay after a lesser effort.


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Script writer, please get a story from your life

Every moment or situation is a movie story. Although you may shy away from it, you cannot run away from it. A story is always surrounding every of your life activities. A story is in whatever thing you say. A story is in whatever move you make. A story is in whatever action you take. A story is in every single thing you experience. A story is in every bit of your life. A story is your life; your life is a story.

Life is full of ups and downs. We face the bad, we also face the good; a little to the left and a little to the right. Sometimes we are disappointed and sometimes we are not. Sometimes we weep and sometimes we smile. Sometimes we over feed and sometimes we have little or nothing to eat.
At a time, we fall sick and at another time, we are healthy. At a time, we score good marks and at another time, we do not. At a time, we succeed and at another time, we fail. At a time, people die and at another time, some others are born. All these that happen in a life are the events that make up a story.

A story is simply a description of how an event happened. A story can only be told if there is an event. There will be no event if there are no humanistic activities. There will be no humanistic activities if there is no life. Invariably, there will be no story if there is no life.

Script-writers do write stories. They feed on stories. Their job is dependent on stories. Even if they are writing an advert script, they still need a story about the product they are writing on. Even if they are writing a speech, they will need information on the issue they are writing on. This information on that issue is the story about that issue.
Simply put, another name for script-writers are ''creative story writers''.

A script-writer should see life as a story he needs to write his scripts. He should look no further because the stories he needs are around him. All he needs to do is to be conscious always.
A script-writer should take advantage of every situation he is passing through to mould an idea which he can develop into a story; and eventually turn into a book, stage play or a screenplay.
All a script-writer needs is a flow of idea; and for this flow to be in a constant stream, he needs to take life as ''a story I'm supposed to write down''.
Once you believe that life is a story you are supposed to write down, then everything that happens in your life will be equal to neutral. Neutral, as in your disappointment will be like an appointment. Your sad moment will be like a joyous moment. You failure will no more look like a failure. You will just take everything as the story you need to write your scripts.
Would this not be a kind of better life; a life where an undesirable situation is just like a normal situation; a life with no stress?

Anyway, whatever it may be or however it may sound; if you make your life your story, then you can write every genre of stage play, screenplay or whatever.
There are many screenplay genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Rom-Com, Drama, Family, Animated, Period, Historical, War, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror.
All these happen in life. So, dear script-writer look at your life and the life of your fellow humans, choose a story genre, and then start writing.


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At the beginning of a movie, you are tensed. After about the first three to four scenes you are relaxed. At another moment you start feeling pathetic. The next moment you start smiling. After this moment, you become nervous. At another moment you start feeling sad. Then the next moment tension sets in. And lastly, at the next moment which can be the last two scenes, you feel relaxed again. These are the consequences of a plot.
Plot is the events the make up a story. It is the pattern with which these events occur.
Human emotions are very dependent on this pattern of events that occur. As different events occur, patterns change, and then human emotions also change.
As pointed out earlier, human emotions change from normalcy to anxiety, happiness, sympathy, laughter, fear, anger, to anxiety and then back to normalcy.
Each of these changes in emotions takes it's time. This time taken corresponds to a particular pattern in the event of the plot.
Plot drives emotions. Emotions changes repeatedly until it finally gets to a relaxed state when the events in the plot must have been exhausted.
The longer the events in the plot last, the more the repetition of emotional changes.
This can be pictured as a curve where at the left foot of the curve you find the 'normal state'. At the highest vertical point of the curve, you find the 'climax'. And then at the right foot of the curve, you find the 'normal state' again. As long as the plot keeps on moving, this can go on and on to create more curves; this is a sinusoidal curve.
Every segment of these curves is equal to an emotional change.
All these changes take their individual time and this makes plot a function of time, just like a sinusoidal curve.

The story in a movie has a plot. This is what makes you emotionally attached to that movie.
In a screenplay, a lot of external and internal forces affect the characters. This makes them change their internal and external feelings; and their approaches to certain actions also change. This consequently changes the emotions of the audience.
When writing your screenplay, you should understand that a good plot is all you need to let your audience into the world you have created. Your plot should be one that makes them always have an emotional feeling at any given moment.

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Screenplay 'story antagonism' from your inner self

The driving force of the story in a movie is in the magnitude of the opposition. The success of the story in a screenplay is in the greatness of the effect of the opposition on the opposed.
Antagonism is the sum of all the hostilities and unfriendliness that befall the protagonist. The protagonist always has a quest; a quest to achieve something good which will benefit his people.
There is always a villain who leads the antagonism against the protagonist. He devises a lot of evil, dehumanizing and immoral means of terminating this protagonist's quest.

If you want to be successful in writing about your villain, or about these evil and dehumanizing obstacles around your protagonist; you must unlock the inner wicked aspect of you. Yes! It's your job to create these evils around your protagonist; and the more wicked and devilish they are, the more the struggles of your protagonist will be.
Remember your aim is to make your protagonist a hero. For anyone to be a hero, he would have gone through and survived a lot of adversaries.

You have to bare the ugly side of your mind. The human mind stores both the good and the bad. Nobody wants to center his thoughts on the bad. Everyone thinks of good (not for the ruthless and wicked people who always plan to perpetrate evil).
For a wonderful screenplay, you need to start thinking of evil against your fellow human. When you start doing so, you will begin to get some insights in various modes you can use to develop a massive screenplay 'story antagonism'.

You have to develop the heart of wickedness.
Thinking about doing bad things to your fellow human is forbidden. But in choosing screenplay or stage play writing as your job, you have no option than to do so.
You need to have the in-depth knowledge about how to perpetrate evil against your fellow human.
You have to create the most forbidden acts. You need to bring up the bad side of you.
No one is encouraging you to really do bad things to people around you, what you are made to understand is that you should imitate these thoughts from your mind and use them as a model or guideline to create your screenplay 'story antagonism'.

You must not wish anyone any good.
It's not good to wish anyone bad. But for the sake of your screenplay, you have to. You have to visualize a bad wish in order to write it down. A way to visualize it is to put it in practice. A way to put it in practice is to wish it on people.
For example; you may be driving along the road and noticed an accident that would have befallen a car in front of yours. Later that day you may be thinking of how it eventually didn't happen.
It would be ruthless of you enough to wish it happened. It would also be demonic of you enough to visualize it happened.
But you are a screenwriter, so you must wish it happened. You must also visualize and demonstrate it.
It may be immoral or sinful to you; "How can you wish someone evil?" your friends may ask. But you have to ignore the immorality and wish it really happened.
It's your job for crying out loud! How else are you supposed to write a good story full of obstacles and challenges to your protagonist?

You must be greedy. Don't be contented with what you have.
This is the attribute a villain has which makes him always fight the protagonist.

You must be an enemy of progress. People around you should not achieve success.
Screenplay 'story antagonism' is all about the various ways of stopping the protagonist and his people from achieving whatever good that will benefit them.

You must be a sadist. You must enjoy being cruel to your fellow humans.
This is what a villain does.
You must be an overall bad person.

Remember, challenges and ugly situations are the factors that drive the urge of your protagonist to save his people and himself. This is what drives the entire movie.
It's likely your conscience will judge you for your bad wishes towards people.
You don't have to mind your conscience. You are doing your job to earn some money.
Let your wicked inner self help you out.

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Screenplay 'story protagonism' from your inner self
NB: Don't mind the word "protagonism"

Do you have a good heart? Are you kind? Do you love your people? Can you fight for your people? Can you save your people? Are you brave? Can you withstand oppositions? Can you conquer the enemy? Can you solve a problem? Can you restore peace? Are you really a good guy?
If your answer to most of these questions above is 'yes', then you are good to go in deriving and writing some means of countering whatever antagonism you have created in the story for your screenplay.

A protagonist is the character in a movie that is in a competition, battle, or struggle.
It is the responsibilities vested on him that makes him to be in a battle and struggle against the enemies.
He is the kind of man that never allows any form of evil to befall on the people he cares for.
This is what a script writer like you should take note of.
The competition between this protagonist and his antagonist is the driving force for a movie.
If you have learnt how to unlock the bad aspect of your inner self to create the various cases of your antagonism (check for an update on this blog; screenplay "story antagonism"), now is the time to also unlock the good aspect of your inner self in order to create the various cases of your 'story protagonism'.

-Always think about good deeds to your fellow humans
-Wish them well
-Be ready to save them from any kind of danger
-Be ready to share whatever you have with them, no matter how little. In addition, you must be contented
-You must be brave
-You must be courageous
-You must be a lover of peace
-Your thoughts will always be full of humane

The more you practice all these attitude, the more you have a better opportunity to present your protagonist in your screenplay.


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No dream is a nightmare.

Dream is a simple reaction by the mind to what it has inside of it.

Are you a young man who goes to bed and seldom has a dream in which unidentified men chase you to kill you?
Do you dream where you are swimming in a pool of water, and then you believe the devil is at work?
Do you have sex in your dream?
Do you dream where you are eating some delicious food; and then you claim your enemy is attempting to poison you, or you are being initiated into a secret cult?
Do you dream about someone you know; and then after few days, coincidentally, the person dies; and then you become worried that once you dream about anyone, he or she dies?
Has someone ever let you understand that some certain signs you see in your dreams denote some certain evils that will befall upon you? Or that some certain activities you partake in your dream are indications that your enemies are getting at you?
Has that person gone farther to list the various kinds of foods you should eat or avoid in your dream? Or inform you the kind of pool of water you swim in or avoid?
Whether yes or no to all the above questions, you have to be objective and ready to understand that dream is just a dream.

Dream is a relay of series of thoughts from your mind about all the physical activities you experienced live.
It is a manifestation by the mind of what you think about, what you wish for, what you imagine, your feelings and body responses. It's about the people you have ever seen or had business with.
It's what you have heard, seen, felt, tasted, perceived. It's where you have visited, lived, worked. It's the people you've seen, talked with, hugged, kissed, slept with, and played with. It's the food you have eaten, cooked. It's the games you've played, seen, won. It's the business you've had, participated in. It's whatever you've had. It's everything you've ever experienced.

The mind keeps the memories of all these. At some particular time of your life and at a particular time of the day, perhaps when the body is at rest or sleeping; the mind remains active and relays these memories to you through dream.
It combines all of these in such a way you may find it difficult to analyze them or find out they are the thoughts and memories that have been in your mind. It only takes a very articulate person, who is conscious enough in noting some of his live activities to do that.

The two major elements in a dream are;
-the environment (setting)
-humans (characters)
Other elements include other living and non living objects.

All these elements are the people, places and things you have seen, been to, wished for, thought of or imagined; as mentioned earlier.
Dream is in such a way that it combines all of these elements in a random manner, but yet passing a particular massage.

The mind is ever active. It's full of thoughts when you are awake. It's also full of thoughts when you are asleep; but here, it's in another form which is dream.

Now; knowing full well what dream is all about, we can further study it as a concept.
Here; we can highlight the characteristics, types, aims and uses of dreams.

CHARACTERISTICS OF DREAM

Dream has no manipulation

Dream is what it is. You cannot say it's not what it is. All the mind does is to keep on manifesting all the thoughts, feelings and memories in it. By so doing, it passes across a message which is relayed to you.
What a dreamer now does after he would have woken up is to try and recall his dream.
The message a dream passes cannot be manipulated. You may think it has a particular meaning, whereas its original meaning is far from yours.

You keep on dreaming about a particular stage in your life where the roles you played were very significant. Perhaps it was a stage which partly contributed to what you are right now. Perhaps it was also a stage that was supposed to make or mar your future.
In this stage, you worked hard to attain some level of integrity which would help protect yourself and your success as you move further in life. You used every available resource to make sure you achieved this.
Now, nobody can claim to be meticulous enough to avoid mistakes. People make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. They may not even notice it until they move a little further above that stage.
This is where regrets set in. Now in this present time, you would wish you had put everything in order then. At every moment, you would remember those mistakes you made and you would be nostalgic about the whole situation. You are not happy because in one way or the other, it has had some effects on your future; which is this present time.
You will not be fulfilled and you will keep on thinking about it.
Everybody is concerned about their future. Their minds are also always on their future.
As you remember that stage when the mistakes were made, your mind will feel those nostalgic feelings. And then through dream, it will relay them to you.
If that stage you made those mistakes was perhaps in your high school or college or your former work place, the mind will always relay it to you using that setting (i.e. that environment).
You may be worried and you may always try to find out why you always dream about that setting.
The answer is simple. The dream is sending you a message that you were not fulfilled by your deeds when you were there in that setting. That's just the fact.
Dream is not an abstract thing. It works in response to the things you feel in yourself. It is part of you. It is part of the inner you. It corresponds to the things you did, the things you are doing, and the things you want to do. The mind is always there to feel what is in you, and the best way to let you see them is through dreams.

Again, there is this issue a reader raised about a dream where she was shot on the leg by a policeman and on waking up, she had a dislocation on that spot she was shot in that dream.

Now the thing here is that this dislocation is not as a result of that dream. Yes it's not! It's just not! Don't apply superstition to your dreams.
The bones in your leg are already at a point of being dislocated. This dislocation state is now rather the cause of your dream. Remember your mind is still active even if you are sleeping.
You may have during the day had an activity that would warrant that dislocation. The dislocation may not have manifested immediately. It's a biological process, and biological processes take time to fully manifest.
Now as you sleep, you stretch your legs to every direction on the bed. Yes, you should stretch yourself; to have a sleep is to have a good rest; you have to feel free, relax and stretch yourself.
So in the process of stretching your leg, the full dislocation condition may be initiated. Once it initiates, your mind would have started feeling it. Your mind will now be on it. This process will trigger a dream. You will now have a dream about a scene in a particular setting (which will be an environment you had ever seen) with some characters (who will include people you have seen before) who will perform an action that will land on that leg. This action may be shots from a gun, knock from the police baton, and painful pressure from a stick or whatever. You may feel the pain and as a result, you will wake up suddenly.
Before this point, the full course of the dislocation process has manifested physically.
So this dream is just a means by which the mind registers to you that something has happened to your leg.
After you wake up, you will now start feeling the pain; this is the dislocation.
Do not be afraid. It's not the dream that caused it. It's the pain that caused the dream.
Dream has a co relation to the physical life. The mind is the intermediate. Messages are relayed. Don't get the message twisted. Just study your life and your daily activities, and then you may understand and elucidate your dreams.

Dream requires a code

There are always many thoughts running in your mind. This brings about more than one dream. Each dream represents each of those thoughts.
It's often not so easy to remember vividly all the dreams you had in the night. But if you manage to do this, (off course you have to try and remember) you will find out it's in a particular sequence based on your thoughts.
There could appear a mix up of the settings, objects or the humans.
One of the dreams can use one setting to manifest more than one thought from your mind. It will be in such a way the messages about the thoughts in the mind which the mind itself wants to relay will happen in a setting. This means that several scenes will be seen in that particular environment or setting.

The first scene will be of the first message about the first thought. The characters and other objects pertaining to this particular thought will be seen, and all the activities about it will take place.
From that scene, it shifts to another scene with its related characters and objects pertaining to the second thoughts which will now have its message relayed.
After this second scene, it can move to the third scene.
All these take place in that one setting and they are in line with those various thoughts in the mind.

There is also another case where the characters which are originally in the thoughts of the mind can change during this message relay.
A character may stand in for another which is the main character you had in mind before you went to bed.
This character that stands in for another will just relay the same message as though it was that one you originally had in mind.
This character still, is not just a character from nowhere. It is a character you have ever seen or had a relationship with in real life. Remember nothing passes by the mind. The mind is recording everything even without your permission to it.
So here the mind makes this character to stand in for the original one.

Certain other things may change too; the objects and other elements.
These other elements may include the subject of the issue.
If it was a "marriage issue" you discoursed with your "friend"; during the dream, your mind may change your "friend" and "the marriage issue" into, say, your "mother" and "family issue".
One thing is sure here; the mind will not change the message and the central lesson you supposed to learn from that discursion. What your "friend" was advising you about "marriage" will be very closely related to what your "mother" is advising you about "family". The mind knows fully the message you are supposed to get, so it relays it to you.
One thing you should know is that things change in the dream, but the central meaning of that dream never changes.
These are the things about dreams which will require you to code them.

Now these changes occur because of the many thoughts in your mind. The mind is very sensitive about the messages, but due to a lot of characters, settings, objects and other elements it has been exposed to in real life, it's bound to make a lot of changes in the dream.
Don't blame it. It's not easy to keep all these thoughts and then sequentially execute them.

Dream lingers

If you dream about one thing, there is very much of possibility you may dream of something relating to that again.
The relationship here is the message in the dream. The message in the first dream will be the same with the second dream. The settings can be the same, or it may change. So also the characters and other elements.
Dream lingers as the thoughts on that issue lingers. You think over an issue again and again, the dream about it may also come again and again.

Dream can be activated

A long time thought on something very important can be activated into a dream by a recent similar thought.
It's possible you think about a certain issue for a long time without dreaming about it. At a point you may stop thinking about it for a while. Any other subsequent thought on that certain issue may now result to a dream. The dream is activated by this recent thought from the earlier thought.
The incidence of this recent thought informs the mind which didn't bother producing a dream at the first incidence of this thought to now produce a dream.
May be at the first time, the mind didn't see the need for a dream. But on an emergence of the same thought again, the mind may now feel the need for a dream.
In other words, dream hooks on a very recent thought to relay a message on an earlier thought.
This is the way it gets activated.

TYPES OF DREAM

Complicated dream

This is as a result of varieties of thoughts, experiences, wishes, places, events, regrets, and so many other relationships you had earlier in that day, just that day. It can also not be just that day.
All these will form components of a setting created in the dream. The setting used will be one of the settings from one of the environments you saw live, earlier in that day.
At a time in the dream, the setting may change. This change in the setting will be to accommodate other components that cannot take place in the previous setting, i.e. the 1st setting.

This depends however on the deepness and length of your sleep. It's possible you may wake up and end a session of the dream, and then continue thereafter when you would have gone back to sleep.
The extent the components are going to appear in your dream will be determined by; how attached, how mindful, how passionately disposed, how worrisome, how enjoyable, how future molding, how deep is the wish, how thoughtful, how relating with the people you see in the dream, how these people you see in your dream affected your life, and how concerned you are to the thoughts.
A component may not be in your dream if you didn't care much about it, or if it was negligible in live, earlier that day.
Characters and other elements may also change. Infect, the whole dream sequence becomes so complicated in the since you will have to code.

Superimposed Dream

For a superimposed dream, a set of characters and other elements perform activities based on more than one thought in the mind.
This takes place in just a setting, but the different thoughts are represented. The activities of these characters that will relay messages about each of the thoughts will happen in parts.
This type of dream normally emerges when these characters are related to each of the thoughts that were in the mind.
The dream will take advantage of the "all character in one thought and setting" to relay its message at once.
It sees no need to change the setting or characters.
This can also be referred to as all in one dream.

Insightful dream

This could be an advantage from dream.
A dream can show you what you are likely to face in real life.
Everybody has an ambition. These ambitions always run through the mind as the mind thinks about them.
In the dream, characters and settings that are pertaining to that ambition will come up and then perform activities that will be directed to that ambition. Their activities may include; the way to go about the ambition, obstacles you may meet on the way to achieving the ambition, and the way to handle it if you eventually achieve it.

This activity of the characters will now serve as the message in the dream regarding the thoughts about that ambition. The message will now be relayed to you.
It's now left for you to analyze the whole dream sequence and pick some vital information which you need to go about your ambition.

This is also applied to a wish which you pray will come to pass one day.
Your dream can relay to you a message from which you can use to make that your wish come true. It will show you the insightful approach to use in order to make things work.

Incomplete dream

There is a kind of situation where the mind is not able to manifest a constant stream of dream sequence. The dream sequence is usually obstructed and as result, a complete message cannot be relayed.
This situation arises when you, the dreamer intermediately gain consciousness while sleeping. Dream and consciousness do not support each other. It's either your mind is doing the normal thinking when you are conscious, or it's in a dream sequence when you are not conscious.

This regain of consciousness is usually due to restiveness. May be you are being so much disturbed about worries in your life, or that your health condition is not stable.
It could also be that you are trying to be conscious of the time you will wake the next morning and as a result, you keep on monitoring.
As usual, your mind should produce or manifest a dream relating to those issues that are worrying you; but due to the fact you regain consciousness in regular intervals, it will be hard for it to do it the normal way. The dreams it will produce will be in fragments. They will be incomplete.

Plain dream

This is just the dream of the thoughts in your mind shortly before you sleep.
It's usually just the way you thought about it. Nothing much will change. The settings, the characters and all other elements will remain the same.

Here, the mind is not very active to start producing dreams from the earlier thoughts you had days back or hours back. It just relaxes itself and makes do with the very recent fresh thoughts.
This kind of dream may also be as a result of fatigue. May be you worked so hard during the day. You will feel tired to run your mind through past earlier thoughts. You will just be comfortable with the very present thought; the thought which enhance your quickness in falling asleep.

This present thought may be the thoughts about your colleagues at your work place that very day. It may also be a wish or a plan on avoiding certain mistakes that occurred in your office; or how to go about your business tomorrow.

USES OF DREAM

Reminder dream

Dream can serve as a reminder to something you have failed to remember.
The mind uses a dream from a different thought and relays a message that will be a factor in reminding you of a thought you have forgotten.
The activities of the characters in this dream will be that which will depict a little of the thought you have forgotten. They will give you a hint.

These thoughts you have forgotten could be knowledge about a situation, a skill at constructing a piece of anything, a means of achieving something and may be a plan on an action to take about something.

Dream as an alert

Apart from dream serving as a reminder, it can also issue an alert on some dangers associated with some decisions you make about your life. It does this simply by relaying to you a message.
As you have learnt, you will be given a hint from the activities that happen in your dream that a decision or a plan you have made could be dangerous or whatever. It's now left for you to have a re-think.

Away from the above and funny though, your dream can alert you on the state of the immediate environment you are sleeping in.
You may be dreaming of fire engulfing some parts of your house building; and then out fear about the dream, you wake up to see your house really on fire.
Another is that you may wake up and find out you urinated on your bed after dreaming of where you are urinating.

Dream can also detect your health condition.
This is possible in the sense you may be dreaming where you are just feeling sick and consequently taking drugs.
When you wake up, you may actually see yourself falling sick some hours later.
This is related to (RE: dream has no manipulation - bone dislocation condition) above where biology is taking its full course.

Dream as a warning

When dream serves as a reminder or an alert, it's earnestly sending you a warning about a planned action that may not be pleasant to you.

Dream predicts the future

Something you may encounter in hours or days coming can appear in your dream.
It's left for you to be ready for it. If it eventually occurs, fine. If it doesn't, fine too.
You have to be prepared about things that are likely to happen to your life.

OTHER NOTES ON DREAM

Dream can serve as an idea or a hint in solving your problems.
Any problem that you have been worried about can be half solved through your dream.
Dream can give you insight.

Dreams can also get you clearer pictures of whatever you are struggling with.
Here, anything you are struggling with is something that may make you live a better life. It could be a struggle to get a job, pass your exams, build your business, lead your followers, fix a problem, stay healthy, and many more.
These are always in your mind and your mind can manifest dreams that can relay a message to you on how to go about anyone of them. It's possible you can have a dream where you are fixing your damaged mobile phone. This is something you couldn't do before this dream.
In times of job search and interviews, your dream can provide you with scenario where you are in the interview section with your employers. This will give you more knowledge about the upcoming interviews.

Dream makes you feel things you liked, loved and thought about.
It tends to take you back to whatever good thing you saw, tasted, heard, or felt.
Let's assume you saw a beautiful hotel building on your way to your friend's native home, and you loved the building; there is a tendency you would dream about it. Not just dreaming about the building, but also dreaming where you are inside it having a nice time - out with your friends.

Dream can persuade you, urge you or advice you to do the right thing you have been avoiding.
Using some characters and settings, dream can let you know the importance of executing or not executing whatever work you have been reluctant to do.

Now back to the first question:
Are you a young man who goes to bed and seldom has a dream in which unidentified men chase you to kill you?

Answer:
Once a young man starts to be conscious of achieving success in life, he starts to be worried too.
He starts being worried about achieving it actually and avoiding anybody stopping him.
The mind is aware of this and it goes on manifesting dreams about his worries.

One of the ways of stopping him frankly is killing him. So every time, he becomes too careful in his dealings with his friends.
These friends of his are the young people like him, whom he will have to compete with as he is struggling to achieve the success.
These young people are the people he sees in his dreams. They look unidentified and sometimes look armed. They chase him to kill him.

If you are in such a situation, don't be afraid. Your mind is simply responding to your anxiety and the worries about achieving the success and becoming a man.
Mind you, this normally happens if you are too concerned about becoming what you want to become in life.
It appears this dream becomes incessant when you are so afraid of these young people you are going to compete with.

Dream is just a response of what's so much on your mind. It helps the mind to offload the numerous thoughts in it, and at same time may be warn you, show you, and refer you to a solution.

Trance is a manifestation by your mind where your mind is not patient enough to wait for you to sleep. Remember the mind has a lot of thoughts in it.

People take Trance as an important issue because Trance often enlightens and somehow informs them of the next thing that may happen to them.
The mind is powerful, isn't it?

No dream is a nightmare is a yet to be published book on everything you need to know about dreams. It points out different kinds of real dreams people have, and genuine analysis of these dreams.
Live interviews with different people of different sexes and of different ages have been conducted by the author himself, Winny Greazy; to ensure that proper analysis of the numerous types of dreams they have ever had is used to dissect and elucidate the concept of dream.
The author himself whom is also a screen writer has had a long time experience and close examination of dreams from his two years of painstaking close watch of his series of dreams.

Now, let's go back and examine the case of eating food in your dream.
Eating in your dream is as a result of some reasons;
-you went to bed hungry, and the biological processes involved in feeling the hunger sensation triggers the dream of you eating to fill yourself.
-there has been a type of food that has been on your mind.
-you have visited a place where a certain type of food is prepared.
-the food you cooked some time ago or hours before you go to bed was delicious or not.
-you were tired to cook and you went to a vendor, and yet you wished you cooked.
-there is a particular taste you had in a particular food you ate at a particular time.
Apart from the above,
-dream can serve to remind you of a type of food you have ever seen or eaten.
-you can see in a dream where the method of a particular food production is carried out; and many more. There are a lot of reasons.
There is nothing devilish about eating in a dream.

The yet to be published book; No dream is a nightmare, clearly explains the reason many things happen in a dream. You will be informed when it's ready.
The book treats with depth whatever you need to know about dreams. Some major topics include; Questions and answers about dreams, spirituality of dreams, body responses to dreams, formation of dreams, signs and codes for dreams, etc.
Meanwhile, you can ask questions in anything about dreams on the comment session.

Let's continue!
If you have sex in your dreams sometimes, it will be because of these reasons;
-you had sex with your partner and after that, the memory still lingered in your mind
-you fantasized about having a beautiful and romantic girlfriend
-you fantasized about having a very pleasurable sex with a girl
-you made a move to ask a girl out, or you actually asked her to be your girlfriend
-you discoursed about sex with your friends
-you were in lust for a girl
-you saw a sex movie
-it has been long you had sex
-your sex partner disappointed you after you waited for them
-you ate some kind of food or drug that boosts sexual activeness
-you have had sex so often
-you are having sex related problem. May be you are not sexually active, or your partner is complaining about you non performance
-you are doing a write up on sex
-you had a lecture on sex
-you were given an assignment to study the processes of sex

All these plus more others can make you dream of having sex.
But for you to dream of having sex, it will depend on how much you think about it i.e. how much deep is the thought in your mind.
Remember that sometimes, the character you may see in you dream i.e. the character you are having the sex with may change from whom you saw live.
The mind is much concerned about manifesting what's in it.


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A movie is all about the repeated emergence of problems against the hero and his repeated fights against those problems.

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The only thing that defines a story for screenplay is "competition"
There must be competition between two groups.
The leader of the first group is the 'Hero', while the leader of the second group is the 'Villain'.
Even if there are many other groups, one thing is still common to them; "competition".

This Competition is simply a fight to obtain a 'thing' that is limited in supply.
The question here is:
Who would get it, and who would not get it?
Who could get it, and who could not get it?

The fight continues; the competition is on.
Winner gets it! Winner takes it!

A story without the salt, "competition" is not a story for screenplay.

Written by: Winston 'Winny Greazy' Oge

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One of the main things that determine your success in screenwriting is the success of each scene in your screenplay.
Scenes make up a screenplay, and they are discrete visuals of excitement that run throughout the course of the screenplay.
If you don't manage them you may be in trouble of ending up with a poor screenplay.
Scenes have a lot of features, and once these features are well managed, you are sure of a good screenplay.

One of the features of a scene is the "character's engagement"
More often than not, a writer may have a scene that involves three or more characters, and he may lose the grip in crafting the scene to make it a memorable one; this makes the scene end up as flop.
This undesirable situation is caused by the inactiveness of some of the characters in that scene. Your characters should be engaged.
A character is not supposed to be too fixed when the other characters are performing their own actions. A character is not supposed to just stand aloof and sheepishly watch them.
You have to make your characters get integrated into the scene. Your characters should make movements to show they are concerned about the particular situation at that point. Let the scene move your characters. Let them help in describing the scene. Let them be connected with the scene. Let them fill in the gaps and spaces in the scene.
Let their facial expression, position, body movement and countenance depict the mood of the scene. They should be doing something; a gesticulation, an idiosyncrasy, a dependent action, a preceding action. They should be responsive. They should be the cause of the scene drive.

Scenes are of different kinds. You have scenes full of joy and happiness, scenes of sorrow, scenes of remembrance, scenes of battle, scenes of actions, scenes of words, scenes of fight, scenes of party, scenes of crime, scenes of romance, scenes of affections, scenes of agony, scenes of terror, and many more kinds.
You have to know what these scenes are about, and you must make your characters adapted to them.
In a scene of terror, every character which is a victim of that terror must be really terrorized. Whether it is his own turn to perform an action or not, he must express his fear. He must show he is truly in fear. He must not look casual. He must not look ordinary. He must not be normal. He must not look happy. He must look terrorized. He must let his action tell more about the scene.
The same instruction goes for the other kinds of scenes. Unless a character is unaware, or the character is not a victim of the situation in that scene, he must be part of it. He must join the others. He must belong with the others. He must identify with the tune of the scene.

Well, in order to make all the above work, both the writer and the actors have roles to play. But the greater responsibility is on the writer. The writer should write what the actors should act. The writer in his script should engage his characters and make them active. And then the actors should try and stick to what the writer has written.

Lastly, dear writer, force your characters to always be active. They shouldn't just stand and mope.
Every character must be engaged in every particular scene.
It's awkward to see one or two characters staying still and moping at the other characters while they perform their own actions.


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You have many stories in your mind, and perhaps you do not have the time to write them down; or perhaps you do not know how to write them; or perhaps you do not know where to start writing them from; here are some tips for you.

1. Examine Yourself

You must be good at one thing. Your mind must always be inclined to one thing. There is always one thing which is in you and which you so much enjoy doing. There is one aspect of entertainment, writing or communication that you have fun engaging yourself in.
May be you love mimicking peoples' speeches. Or, may be, you are good at imaginations.
You can also be good at always writing about the things you see or feel.
Some people enjoy telling stories both fictitious and non fictitious.
Some other people enjoy watching movies, and criticizing those movies afterwards.
Again, some people are very good at correcting grammatical mistakes made by their friends or colleagues.
Some others love reading and acting what they have read.
Everybody loves doing one thing or the other which pertains to social activities.

In writing; if you truly love writing, you have to examine yourself and find out the aspect of writing you like and enjoy. Just be sincere to yourself. It is a personal and internal exercise.
If you are good in writing descriptions of things you see or things that happen around you, you can be a good novel writer.
If you are good in imaginations creating stories and scenes in your mind; stories and scenes that have characters, their actions and their speeches; then you can be a good script writer.
If you love criticizing and analyzing issues and events that happen around you, in your society, then you can be a good article writer.
If you always correct you friends whenever they make mistakes in grammar, then you can be a good teacher, and you can even write books.

Writing is all about the passion to make what you love doing, seeing and feeling come alive. It is an internal response to the external activities.
You can't just perceive things and then keep quite. You've got to say something about them. You've got to write about them.
Writers do write to teach, entertain, address issues and correct impressions.

So, find the aspect you can fit in and then start working on it immediately.

1. Create a Jotting Mode

Ideas about what to write usually come whenever you are not ready to jot them down. This is true because ideas come carelessly. They do not come in a complete form. They occur to you indistinctly and it is left for you to make them distinct by writing them down, and then subsequently develop them.
Ideas occur to you like a wave of air that is ready to fly away in the very second it occurs. If you do not hold it and harness it, then you may need to wait until another time it comes.
Ideas will make you uncomfortable as you will go on and on trying to remember them if you didn't put them down.

Now, since these ideas usually occur whenever you are too busy to jot them down, there is need for you to create and design a way of jotting them.

There are many ways and forms of jotting, but any one you choose will depend on your daily schedules and dispositions.
One can jot on the paper or on their electronic devices.
Jotting on the paper will entail you carrying your paper jotter everywhere you go. And when an idea comes, you quickly bring it out and then jot the idea down. How comfortable would this be for you?
May be if you are a teacher, cashier, office secretary, lawyer or you do any other job that allows you sit at your table from morning till evening; this form of jotting may favor you.
What of those who always move or travel from one point to another as part of their job?
The answer is that they will use their mobile phones or any other mobile electronic device for the jotting.

Well, it all depends on you. Just know how best you can put down your ideas as they occur. The most important thing is to put them down no matter where you are, or no matter when they occur. Do not let any of them slip off.

3. Break Your Stories Down

You chose screen writing and you have also found a manageable and reliable means of jotting the ideas about the stories and other elements of the screenplay down.
Now, you have recorded a lot of ideas, right? That's good. The next thing you need to do is to define these ideas, which would be 'story building ideas', and then categorize them into genres, themes, characters, locations, settings, days, years, seasons or time they are likely to happen. Every group will have the same thing in common.

4. Pick Out the Elements

In a particular group, you still need to create a sub group for the members of that group that have very close common features.
Check the elements that are very similar to one another. Themes that are very similar to one another should be in the same sub group. Characters that are very similar to one another should be in the same sub group; and so on. Just do same for all the original groups and their members.
The essence is to streamline the various different features so as to make the writing job easier.

5. Make the Exercise a Fun and a Habit

Try and be in it. Try and enjoy doing it. You can only write a good piece if and only if you can give yourself in to writing. Writing will always command you; just be ready to obey it. But the only way to be ready to obey it is by making it a habit, having fun with it, and then enjoying it.
I know you do have fun surfing the internet, facebooking, tweeting, pinging and chatting with your phone. Why not also transfer some of that fun to writing down ideas that occur to you with that same phone? That time you use to write down the updates you are going to post on your social media page, why not also use some of that time to write down an idea that have been hovering around your mind?
Engage in some close and sincere examination of yourself. Have fun imagining yourself doing the things you wish. Wishful thoughts and fantasies are sometimes enjoyable, aren't they?
Once you put down your ideas, just imagine yourself as the creator of that idea and people are now paying to get to you. With this kind of thought, you will have the strength to move ahead and categorize your ideas and then keep them ready to use. Good ideas are costly, very costly, I must tell you. It only starts like a joke or a play, but when it starts becoming useful and sellable, it will no longer be a child's play.
So if you want to make things work for you in writing, you got to start having fun with it right now.

6. Collate Your Work

Now, gather everything. All the categories and all the sub categories; keep all of them in view.
It's possible you didn't note down your ideas on just one device or one note pad. Now is the time to bring them together in one device. This will surely make you concentrate and have a better view of all your ideas.

7. Work on Your Work

Start putting everything straight. Start developing your ideas. Start writing your first drafts. Start creating your characters. Start arranging your plots. Start fine tuning your story lines and themes. Start setting out the times and seasons. Start visualizing and designing your locations; start to work on your work.
This is the building moment. It may get frustrating and discouraging; but one thing will lead you; determination.

8. Save Your Work

Do not waste your work on the social media. Do not share your work on your facebook page or any other. Your facebook friends may not be your appropriate audience. Your facebook friends are just a group of persons who are like you. They are hungry for ideas too. They want what you want. They can copy your idea if you tell them about it. In this case, your facebook friends are simply your rivals.
Just keep your work safe and then target your appropriate audience.
Anyway, you can still give your friends a hint on what you are up to.
Again, you have to be careful about 'calls for competitions'. Do not just send or submit your work to competition organizers who you cannot trust. You always need to verify whether any call is genuine or not. And if you know your work is not fit to win the competition, do not submit.

9. Create a Channel

Your aim is to make your work reach the target audience. For this to happen, you need to create a channel for that. You should have in mind of protecting your ideas and work, but yet exposing it to the appropriate persons.
Some of the ways of doing this is by registering in various online and offline forums. In these forums, you will meet other great minds like you. Together you can discuss what it means to belong to those forums. You will learn more about packaging and giving your work final touches. One joyful thing is that these forums are where your appropriate audience comes to search for you. The forum can be a website, a chat group, a web page, a class, a club and so on. Apart from these forums, you can create a personal weblog where you teach audience about your experiences in harnessing your ideas. Here, you share what you passed through from the beginning to that point. You guide and teach them how to write screenplays and also other forms of writing.
Since you have been in writing, you can also to some extent teaching people how to write. Just teach them any how you can, provided they understand you.
But in all these, make sure you protect your original ideas and work.
As you keep on doing these, you are also learning more, and you are also building your background in writing.
At a particular time, believe me; you will start getting clients who are very ready to pay you.

10. Self Development

Now that you have done it, keep on doing it. Keep on developing yourself. Always be ready and prepared to serve your customers.
Seek new ideas and methods. Teach more people. Distinguish yourself from others. Push your talent to the limit.


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