Every story that has impressed the audience features proactive characters. If your script (or book) is failing to impress readers despite your narrative having clear goals, quirky characters, a unique ...

Open up any screenwriting book or Google “how to write a script” and you’ll come across a litany of terms both familiar and foreign: “protagonist,” “antagonist,” “beat,” “plot,” “climax,” “inciting ...

The term main character energy is a derivation of film and book storytelling. The protagonist of these stories drives the action and takes the most important decisions. The idea later was adopted by ...

For most of film and television history, supporting characters existed with a clear narrative function: assist the protagonist, provide comic relief, move the plot forward, and quietly exit when the ...