Story From Start to Finish: A Screen Writing Workbook
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Story From Start to Finish: A Screen Writing Workbook
Sale price
$18.99
Regular price $22.99
You've might have read the books. You might know the theory. You still don't have a finished screenplay.
Story from Start to Finish is a 45-day screenwriting workbook that takes you from blank page to complete first draft. No lectures. No film school prerequisites. Just a structured, day-by-day system — one exercise per day — until you're holding a finished draft in your hands.
Day 1, you write five wildly different loglines. Day 2, you map your story onto an 8-point story circle across five acts. Day 3, you blow it up and rebuild it three times. Days 4 and 5, you expand those 8 points into 40 beats — each connected by "therefore" or "but," never "and then." Days 6 through 45, you write one beat per day. That's it.
What's inside this screenwriting workbook:
— Logline formula with film examples and writing exercises
— 8-point story circle with detailed guidance for every beat
— Four full story circle variations to stress-test your structure
— 40 scene breakdowns with examples from Finding Nemo, Gladiator, Star Wars, The Lion King, and Aladdin
— A complete revision pass for all 40 scenes
— A 40-day writing checklist to track your progress
— Every scene gets its own full page with lined writing space
This system was built on film sets, not in classrooms. I developed it after writing several feature film scripts while working full-time as an IATSE lighting technician in Chicago and Los Angeles. Long weeks on set don't leave room for writer's block. They barely leave room for to write at all.
If you want to complete your draft, this is for you.
You have a story to tell. This workbook gets it written.
Story from Start to Finish is a 45-day screenwriting workbook that takes you from blank page to complete first draft. No lectures. No film school prerequisites. Just a structured, day-by-day system — one exercise per day — until you're holding a finished draft in your hands.
Day 1, you write five wildly different loglines. Day 2, you map your story onto an 8-point story circle across five acts. Day 3, you blow it up and rebuild it three times. Days 4 and 5, you expand those 8 points into 40 beats — each connected by "therefore" or "but," never "and then." Days 6 through 45, you write one beat per day. That's it.
What's inside this screenwriting workbook:
— Logline formula with film examples and writing exercises
— 8-point story circle with detailed guidance for every beat
— Four full story circle variations to stress-test your structure
— 40 scene breakdowns with examples from Finding Nemo, Gladiator, Star Wars, The Lion King, and Aladdin
— A complete revision pass for all 40 scenes
— A 40-day writing checklist to track your progress
— Every scene gets its own full page with lined writing space
This system was built on film sets, not in classrooms. I developed it after writing several feature film scripts while working full-time as an IATSE lighting technician in Chicago and Los Angeles. Long weeks on set don't leave room for writer's block. They barely leave room for to write at all.
If you want to complete your draft, this is for you.
You have a story to tell. This workbook gets it written.