• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Screenwriting.io

Screenwriting.io

Answering basic questions about screenwriting.

  • Answers
  • About
  • Ask
  • Index
Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only

What does it mean to “break story” on a screenplay?

Tagged: dramatic theory, outlines, screenplay, screenwriting, script, scriptwriting, structure, terms, writing

Breaking story basically means figuring out the screenplay’s blueprint — mapping out a story and coming up with a logically and dramatically consistent beginning, middle, and end, and the major checkpoints therein.

ROBIN

I finally broke story on that period family-horror-comedy idea I’ve been wrestling with.

BRAD

Nice!

It’s cause for a small celebration.

More from johnaugust.com

  • Outlines, treatments and numbered pages
  • WTF is a beat sheet?
  • Setting is not story
  • Selling a story if you’re not a screenwriter

Answer Index

script scriptwriting screenwriting screenplay formatting terms film structure presentation writing business software TV WGA Final Draft length characters guild credits union FDR FDX scene headings dramatic theory outlines adaptations arbitration producers highland pdf fountain guru Celtx managers Movie Magic awards agents rights pitching directors iPad iPhone festival short film prelap

Primary Sidebar

Switching from Final Draft to Highland 2

Switching from Final Draft
to Highland 2 – Get the PDF

© 2022 Screenwriting.io — All Rights Reserved.

  • Answers
  • About
  • Ask
  • Index