Annie is a screenwriter, story consultant, and reader for major screenplay competitions.
(Edited on Sept. 17 at 1:37 pm EST.)
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Your story has a beginning, a middle and an end but they don’t necessarily have to appear in that order. A good beginning has lots of things happening in it, things that make the reader curious about what’s going on. Once the reader is curious, they are hooked.
There’s no time in your opening to spend on anything flat or predictable. Readers fall in love with scripts that open in an unexpected way.
Annie is a screenwriter, story consultant, and reader for major screenplay competitions.
(Edited on Sept. 17 at 1:37 pm EST.)
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