Here is a screenplay writing method that will punch through your writer’s block right away… Take a classic film that you love. Analyze and identify its main plot components scene-by-scene. Then write your own movie script by using the same template, the same skeletal structure. This is a completely legal and ethical method since a “plot structure” (like “the bad guys chase the good guy and threaten his girlfriend”) is an idea and ideas cannot be copyrighted. Your script or story will be an original since you’ll be using your own characters, dialog, and events. But the underlying plot structure will be solid since you’ll be emulating the same time-proven formula that your “template film” has used successfully in the past. Why re-invent the wheel? This is like using the same Flowers-Vase-Table composition used by Van Gogh but painting your own original “Sunflowers” canvas by using your own sunflowers + vase + table, your own color palette, and your own brush strokes. The result is a brand-new painting with a well-balanced and tasteful structure/composition. You’re Not the First One Guess what? You’ll not be the first one to create a new screenplay built on a plot shared by other films. The examples are many. There are many movies which share the same underlying plot structure. For example: “I Am Legend (2007)" shares the same plot structure with "The Omega Man" (1971) and both are great films to watch. Here are some other films that share the same plot structure: 􀀁 “Avatar” and “Dances with Wolves” and “The Last Samurai” 􀀁 “West Side Story” and “Romeo and Juliet” 􀀁 “North by Northwest” and “The Three Days of the Condor” 􀀁 “The Lost Patrol” and “Sahara” 􀀁 “The Mechanic” and “All About Eve” Once you understand the basic mechanics of it, you can apply the same method to any film you like and derive your own original screenplay from it. Add your own characters, events, turning points, dialog, and adapt the comprehensive examples provided in this book any way you like to write your own screenplays. At the end you’ll know that you’ve got a winner instead of a poorly structured amateurish screenplay since the original film has already become an all-time classic thanks to its underlying market-tested structure. Read this book and follow the step-by-step examples provided. Once you learn this amazing method and make it your own, you’ll start cranking up one well-structured screenplay after another, without any writer’s block (even though the real outcome will of course vary from one writer to another and cannot be guaranteed 100%). It's your turn... Find a movie you love and re-create it on your own terms and with your own words by using its plot sequences as a general template, as I tried to show in great detail above. No more the dreaded writer’s block. No more the terror of the blank page that never gets filled. Glue your backside to that chair, fire up that laptop, and get down to the best job in the business: creating lovely new stories and wonderful dreams for a world that badly needs them.