The 10 Questions to make a good script.

I've been a bit busy on the last weeks, but in meantime I attended at Hull university the BBC Writersroom Seminar: What is a Story?

At the seminar we learned 10 questions you should ask to your first drafts as a starter to do a good script.

They are quite simple questions, but they give you an idea on how to build the structure of your story.

So what are these questions? In a very resumed way here they are:

1) Whose story is it?
2) Why should we care?
3) What is the emotional state at the beginning of the story?
4) What is the inciting incident?
5) What the characters want?
6) What obstacles are on their way?
7) What is their stake? What they win or lose?
8) What do they learn?
9) What is the moment of crisis?
10) How it ends?

These are questions that definitely should help you to build a interesting structure for your story.

Have a go and look on some of your drafts to check if they answer to all these questions. If they do, you are on a good way.

Next posts I will be back to the three acts structure.

CYA