Screenwriting 101: Norman Krasna

“When you are committed to the skeleton of a beginning, a middle and an end, the cleverness is in concealing the skeleton. This is a cliche, but you have to surprise them with what they expect. It has to be an odd way of telling it, but they want to know which way it is going. You have to anticipate what they want, and the trick is in how you lead them to it.”

— Norman Krasna

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