Writing a screenplay in simple steps

Screenplays for Dummies

The writer of the screenplay for the film Sylvia offers some simple steps for generating a screenplay plot. It's all about beginning, middle and end--you know, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back, but with a lot of elaboration. ("You keep doing the beginning/middle/end thing over and over again.") He makes it all sound very easy.

I saw Sylvia, the Plath biopic, on DVD. Hmm. Girl poet meets boy poet. Girl loses boy. Girl puts head in...oh, never mind.

(via Maud Newton)