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Digging into Fiction Writing Tips From Hollywood
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With summer blockbuster movies easily pulling in over a billion dollars, it's safe to say that Hollywood knows how to make stories widely appealing and commercially successful.
Why is it that Furious 7 makes billions and the average author struggles to push a 1000 copies of their book?
Fiction Writing Tips From Hollywood will break down the common attributes and devices that make blockbusters successful. Apply them to your fiction writing to give your readers an explosive experience.
"There’s a rule in filmmaking that the inciting incident has to occur within the first 10 minutes of a film—and the sooner the better. Audiences are used to being hooked into the story within a couple minutes of its opening. What this means for fiction is that, in order to compete with visual media, your fiction will have to drag the reader into its world quickly in order to hook them in. If your reader doesn’t feel invested in the story by page 2, there is nothing stopping them from switching apps and watching a YouTube video." -SCREENWRITING TIPS FROM HOLLYWOOD
With summer blockbuster movies easily pulling in over a billion dollars, it's safe to say that Hollywood knows how to make stories widely appealing and commercially successful.
Why is it that Furious 7 makes billions and the average author struggles to push a 1000 copies of their book?
Fiction Writing Tips From Hollywood will break down the common attributes and devices that make blockbusters successful. Apply them to your fiction writing to give your readers an explosive experience.
"There’s a rule in filmmaking that the inciting incident has to occur within the first 10 minutes of a film—and the sooner the better. Audiences are used to being hooked into the story within a couple minutes of its opening. What this means for fiction is that, in order to compete with visual media, your fiction will have to drag the reader into its world quickly in order to hook them in. If your reader doesn’t feel invested in the story by page 2, there is nothing stopping them from switching apps and watching a YouTube video." -SCREENWRITING TIPS FROM HOLLYWOOD
