Go On Your Own Quest, Week 1: Plot

Several readers emailed me about aggregating the entire series of posts we have been running in association with the Go On Your Own Quest initiative.

Here is Week 1: Plot.

How would you define plot?

Do screenplay plots have patterns or paradigms?

How do you work out your screenplay’s plot?

Index cards: Do you use them when plotting your story or not?

What does William Goldman mean by the assertion, “Screenplays are structure?”

Plot. Concept. Character. Style. Dialogue. Scene. Theme. Time. The eight subject areas of the Core curriculum and a way to dig into screenwriting theory.

For more information on the Core classes, go here.