• Screenwriters Beginners,  Screenwriting Techniques,  Story Structure

    10+1 Questions on How to Create the Best Protagonist

    How to Create the Best Protagonist

    Stories have different kinds of characters. Every story has a main character, called the hero or protagonist. In this post, I would like to share with you the 10 most important questions to ask when trying to create your Protagonist. I know many people will expect questions such as “What is the gender”, “What’s the age or nationality” of your character, “what’s his/her occupation” or even “what are her physical characteristics”. But no, I’m not going to give you this kind of questions. Although, I’m not saying that this information is not important, what I’m saying is that it’s not the essence of your main character. The questions I’m going…

  • Screenwriters Beginners,  Screenwriting Basics,  Screenwriting Tips

    Call to Adventure and Inciting Incident: NOT the Same Thing

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    So many people in the industry mention the Inciting Incident and the Call to Adventure as if they were the exact same thing… which results in a lot of confusion regarding in which scene one can find the one or the other. In this article, I’m going to explain what’s the matter with this confusion and why the two of them are NOT the same thing.