Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 3: Plot Emerges From Character

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
3 min readAug 24, 2022

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No matter what paradigm or theory you use to craft your screenplay’s plot, the single most important thing you can do is this: Start with your characters.

A character in the middle of a plot.

As we prepare for the 2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge, a five-part series on Screenwriting Back to Basics. Today: Plot emerges from Character.

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