Screenwriters should love it first...
August 10th, 2003
Bob Noll, who has taught the craft of screenwriting for years, revealed his sure-fire recipe for a great screenplay.
Step one: Put a character in a tree. Step two: Shake the tree and let loose ravenous animals to prowl underneath it. Step three: Get the character out of the tree, survival optional.
The trick is to make the audience worry about that guy in the tree. "Most movies do that," said Noll, who teaches scriptwriting at the Cleveland Play House and John Carroll University. He is also an adjunct instructor in the communications department at John Carroll University and adviser to the Carroll News student newspaper.
Noll tells his students they have better odds of getting rich off the lottery than getting rich by selling a script. If you don't love writing, it's not worth it, and the accomplishment of finishing a screenplay should be its own reward.
"You have to do it because you love doing it," said Noll, who also has taught screenwriting at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Film Society and other places.
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