Subscribe to PostsI am taking a screenwriting class this coming semester. This is cool as i have never really tried my hand at script writing (outside a bad thing I did for high school drama), and I like learning new skills.
I picked up the text for the class, a screenwriting book by a guy named Syd Fields. I decided I would read it before classes started to get a bit ahead in my understanding. I am about halfway through the book and I have run into something that has gotten me rethinking some things. His style of writing is very structured, which is a little challenging for me as I tend to be a bit more of a discovery writer, but his contention that you should decide on the ending of the story first is interesting to me.
Endings are hard. I can’t count the number of story fragments I have had, over the years, that I let drop because I could not figure out how to end them. This idea has gotten me thinking. I may have to try that the next time I write a story. I have more than a few friends who are writers of various stripes. How many of you guys use a method like this?
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