Screenwriting Tricks for Authors: The MIDPOINT Game Changer!
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The MIDPOINT is one of the most important scenes or sequences in any book or film: a major shift in the dynamics of the story.
All of the first half of Act II of your book or script is leading up to that crucial Midpoint (around page 60 in a movie or script, around page 200 in a 400-page book).
Something huge is revealed
Something goes disastrously wrong
Someone close to the hero/ine dies, intensifying their commitment (what I call the Now It’s Personal scene… imagine Clint Eastwood or Samuel L. Jackson growling the line)
Often the whole emotional dynamic between characters changes with what Hollywood calls Sex at Sixty (that’s at 60 minutes, not 60 years!)
You also might hear the Midpoint called the MOMENT OF COMMITMENT or the POINT OF NO RETURN or NO TURNING BACK: the hero/ine commits irrevocably to the action.
I find it helpful to look at it as the BRIDGE between Act II: Part 1 and Act II: Part 2 (and once you cross that bridge, you can’t go back)!
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