Writing Your Act II - Essential Story Elements | Screenwriting Tricks for Authors |
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Let's review the essential Story Elements of Act I and get an overview of the Elements of the first half of Act II. This video puts these elements into a narrative, to give you a sense of the flow of the story.
Act II, Part 1 is the second quarter of a story: the second half-hour of a movie (pages 30-60 in a 120-page script), or pages 100-200 in a 400-page book. As I’ve said, it's a LOT easier to write that long Act II if you look at it as two separate acts, Act II: Part 1, and Act II: Part 2.
We’ve already set up a whole lot in Act I. So these first few Key Story Elements, we’ve already discussed, and they may well have already occurred in Act I:
Crossing the Threshold/ Into the Special World
Threshold Guardian/Guardian at the Gate (possibly)
Hero/ine’s Plan
Antagonist’s Plan
If not, you’re definitely going to want to get them in very early in Act II!
In fact, the PLAN is so incredibly important to your whole Act II that if you need a refresher, don’t even read any more of this post—just go straight to this one about that crucial PLAN:
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Continue reading for details and examples of each story element:
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