Tips on how to be a better screen writer/writer

The sooner the conflict erupts, the sooner you hook the reader. Establish your character’s conflict in the screenplay’s first scenes, if possible. If not, bring on the conflict ASAP to hook the reader (and eventually the audience).

Lerch, Jeniffer. 500 Ways to Beat the HollyWood Script Reader. Simon & Schuster:Fireside, 1999. pg.99. Print