Screenwriting They Can't Resist. Emotional Pull for Character

A radically new and provocative approach for screenwriters who want to create utterly compelling characters. Everything in a screenplay is based on one overriding premise: Emotional Pull. Great screenwriting begins and ends with the emotional needs of the characters, not a tent-pole. Start off worrying about how to fit your story into a rigid structure designed to be universally applied to all scripts and you will more likely produce a script that’s formulaic and forgettable and won’t have a chance of being developed. How you spell-bind an audience into an irresistible involvement with your characters and keep it entranced by that magic till the end of the film – and beyond - is to arouse, provoke, intrigue, disturb, unsettle, excite, exhilarate, frighten, gladden, mesmerize, and delight the audience’s emotions. Emotional Pull is what powers the story. It’s what forces your characters to do what they do, when they do it and why. And when and why they try to resist it.It dete..