Four plot points
According to advice I have readon writing a screen play there should be four plot points, roughly equally apart. If the aim is 80,000 to 100,000 words, then each point is reached after 20 to 25,000 words.
In the screen play I am writing, provisionally titled stranded, it took me a while to determine what the plot points were. I knew the over-all story line but wasn't sure of the plot points (or what would be called crises if writing a novel or short story).
So my four sections now are
1. Two people argue until the man angrily gives in.
2. They start to change their minds after seeing each other in a good light.
3. An incident occurs to makes them again angry with each other.
4. They help each other and their differences are resolved.
Within each of these I have to build up to a crisis point which changes their relationship dramatically.
All good fun.
I live in Mandurah, Western Australia, where, when I am not dabbling in painting, playing my guitar and trying to grow old gracefully, I am trying to write a screen play.
Where to buy my books
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The Man Who Didn't Like People
Joe Wetherley left his wife and children twenty years ago and has been living on his own in the bush. Now he must seek out his family again and make decisions about the legacy he will be leaving them.
A New Era For Manny Youngman
Manny Youngman has unconventional ideas on feminism and the effects it has on our society but he has not counted on a fifteen-year-old daughter he didn't know he had.
A life in short stories
A collection of some of the many short stories I have written over the past 60 years, from some that were published in "girlie" magazines in the 1960s to the most recent entered in competitions and published in anthologies.
A unique view of a writer's life as I adapted to market needs and my own interests.
