Why a Screenplay Critique Might Work for You
Have you ever envisioned yourself in a particular scene when reading a novel or memoir? Everything is so clear – you can smell the flowers, feel the branches of the trees, and hear the river flowing.
Your job, as a writer, is to take the reader and bring them into the story. If you have any weakness in developing your plot, characters, or setting, you would benefit from a screenplay critique.
Triggering Imagination
When you’re formulating your plot, there is one area that is always gray to the author: the readers’ imagination. There is no way to know exactly what your readers will experience when they read what you write. However, you can expand their imagination through good writing. A screenplay critique can help you develop your plot to make it engaging and realistic. Screenwriters know how to trigger certain emotions and imaginations.
“Growing” Your Characters
When the good guy always does good and the bad guy always does bad, doesn’t it make a story boring? There needs to be a struggle – characters that grow. However, if your characters change too much, there is nothing left for the reader to remember them by – they only remember the struggle. (Read Pride And Prejudice
Bringing Your Scenes to Life
Finally, once you have your plot and characters developed, it’s time to bring the reader into the story, by creating vivid scenes.
How?
Simple. Write the scene how you envision it. Working with a professional screenwriter to find the right words for each piece can help you bring the scene to life.
Okay, so why do you need all of this when your goal is simply to reach people with your message? Because readers set aside preachy, boring writing, except in the case of devotionals and commentaries.
Poor writing = poor audience
If you have a message you want to tell people, but the writing is poor or not interesting, readers will not spend enough time to understand what you’re after. Why not have a screenwriter help you strengthen your writing?
WinePress offers an exclusive service that helps authors with a great story launch to the silver screen. We partner with some of the best screenwriters in the industry help you improve your writing through a screenplay critique and coach you on how to transform your book into a screenplay.
For more information: From Story to Film, or give us a call at 1-800-326-4674.
Tweet This!Author Cindy Scinto interviews on KHQ 6 News
A Heart Like Mine by Cindy Scinto
NBC news affiliate in Spokane, Washington--KHQ 6 News.
It will air locally on Tuesday, 1-26-2010 at 5:00 and 6:00 p.m.
Available online, Wednesday, 1-27-2010.
In September 2001, Cindy Valenti-Scinto, a healthy young woman, suffered a heart attack that was only the beginning of a grueling seven-year journey through heart disease. Four years later, after forty operations and several brushes with death, Cindy received a miraculous heart transplant that saved her life.
http://www.cindyscinto.com
http://cindyscinto.blogspot.com
Is Yeshua the Prophesied Messiah?
Friday, Jan 15, 2010
1-1:30 PM ET
Dane Kane, author of Is Yeshua the Prophesied Messiah of the Hebrew Bible? will make a live appearance on the Bob Dutko Show on WMUZ in Detroit.
Have you ever wondered if the prophesied Mashiach of the Hebrew Bible is the same as the Jesus that Christians embrace as Messiah?
What about the many messianic prophecies recorded in the Old Testament, including G-d’s promise of a new covenant for His people, the Jews—have they been fulfilled?
And if so, what is the significance for our Jewish friends and neighbors?
In Is Yeshua the Prophesied Messiah of the Hebrew Bible?, Dan Kane examines a number of Hebrew Bible messianic prophecies, along with other ancient Jewish writings, and weighs them against events in the life of Jesus (Yeshua) as recorded in Scripture.
Such prophecies include the birth of Mashiach; the Messiah as the suffering servant of Isaiah 53; and Mashiach as the Shiloh of Genesis 49:10.
What emerges is:
- An understanding of how and why some rabbis, beginning in the eleventh century, found it necessary to reinterpret many long-held Hebrew Bible prophecies concerning the coming of Mashiach.
- The role of the Roman Catholic Church in presenting a false Christianity to the Jewish people and its effects on contributions to the Talmud.
- How some so-called Christian denominations incorrectly interpret significant biblical teachings today.
