Author: Osaji Obi

Suppose you are good at writing a story and your story has all the casting colors like characters, narrative arc, or drama that can be serialized on television. In that case, you can be a professional screenwriter. It’s the best time to invest your energy in the right place, do not let it go to…

Dialogue is the major element of screenplay writing as it’s a conversation between two or more people to deliver information to the audience. Some people spice up the script writing with the appropriate idioms suitable to the character’s background. Usage of sophisticated vocabulary with phrasing and beats of the speech that shows the education and…

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back from the story’s current point. It crucially recounts the events of the backstory that happened before the current events. Most of the time, flashbacks come at the moment of trauma for a character in the present, triggering a memory of the past as they…

You may find it difficult or unnecessary when you finish the screenplay to write a synopsis too, but it’s a necessary marketing tool for selling the script. The reader, producer, or studio exec wants to read the subject of the screenplay then decide to read the full script or not. The synopsis gives an overview…

Finding the right time for writing a screenplay matters a lot, especially when you are linked with the film industry and have screenwriting as a profession. But if you are doing some other job and writing is your passion and your niche is screenwriting, it must be challenging to get time. You need to know…

Script writing needs skills to create a screenplay for film making, and knowing how to write a script outline is an important step. Outlining the script can help you save your time for the modification you make to the screenplay after writing it. The faulty three-way triangle of conflict between the main character, secondary, and…

Screenwriting is challenging for a new writer and writing an action scene can be difficult too, but practice can make perfect. A good understanding of how to write an action scene can form a good script. Every movie needs climaxes and battles or chase scenes to get a successful story because it’s what the audience…

The age old question of what to do with a finished screenplay is one that screenwriters must ask themselves. I’ve been around this for a long time to give you the very best advice. The raw, uncut truth and I promise you, this isn’t anything that you’ve ever heard before. If you’re not willing to…

Knowing how to introduce characters in a screenplay means more than just understanding how to properly format character descriptions. You want to think about when, where, and how a decision will play out in the mind of the reader and how it will look onscreen. New writers are preached to ad nauseum, “Read screenplays from…

Do you know how to write everyday? All you have to do is write to be a screenwriter, but many struggle to do that on a consistent basis. Many screenwriters just need to put it to paper when they have a perfect idea. In some cases, a few pages or the first act may have…