“REVERSALS are little twists which occur within a scene. If the twists takes the STORY in another direction, it’s a ‘plot twist.’ The most common criticism of beginner’s scripts is that they’re too predictable. The reader KNOWS what’s going to happen next, so why read on?
Already, you’re up against the genre in making your script unpredictable; We KNOW the hero will win and the villain will be vanquished. So our job as action writers is to make sure the story DOESN’T take a direct path from beginning to end, but corkscrew a little.”
William C. Martell
The Secrets of Action Screenwriting
Page 77
Action Screenwriting (Part 6)
August 16, 2009 by Scott W. Smith
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[…] “REVERSALS are little twists which occur within a scene. If the twists takes the STORY in another direction, it’s a ‘plot twist.’ The most common criticism of beginner’s scripts is that they’re too predictable. The reader KNOWS what’s going to happen next, so why read on? Already, you’re up against the genre in making […] Original Source… […]
thanks Scott for introducing this text to me.