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(2015) From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Formulating the concept of the plot genotype

Terence Patrick Murphy

pp. 27-30

Before you can begin writing your screenplay, you need to know four things: the opening, the plot point at the end of Act I, the plot point at the end of Act II, and the ending. When you know what you’re going to do in these specific areas, and you’ve done the necessary preparation on action and character, then you’re ready to begin writing. Not before.1

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137552037_4

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Murphy, T. (2015). Formulating the concept of the plot genotype, in From fairy tale to film screenplay, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 27-30.

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