The Screenwriter's Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story Book

GuidePost 1: Clarify the Central Conflict of Your Premise GuidePost 2: Think of Setting and Time Period as Another Character GuidePost 3: Create an Iconic Protagonist with a Core Contradiction GuidePost 4: Give Your Protagonist Something to Win and Something to Lose GuidePost 5: Determine Your Protagonist's Most Significant Weakness and how they'll overcome it GuidePost 6: Drafting the Architectural Foundation GuidePost 7: Hook Your Audience into the Plight of Your Protagonist by Page 10
GuidePost 8: Inject a Potent Antagonistic Force to Obstruct the Goals of Your Protagonist GuidePost 9: Plunge Your Protagonist into Crisis at the End of Act One (no later than page 25)
GuidePost 10: Fuelling and Consistently Stoking the Dramatic Fire GuidePost 11: Infuse Your Story with a Central Mystery GuidePost 12: The Center Can Hold: Ratcheting up the Stakes at the Midpoint of Act 2
GuidePost 13: Thicken the Plot with a Pivotal Character GuidePost 14: Compel your Protagonist into Epiphany in Act 3
GuidePost 15: Situate Your Protagonist at a Crossroads at the End of Act 2
GuidePost 16: Set the Clock Ticking GuidePost 17: Heighten the Climax Guidepost 18: Pay-off the Setups GuidePost 19: Crafting the Inevitable Conclusion GuidePost 20: Illuminate the Central Thematic Question GuidePost 21: Rewrites: Reconnecting to the Emotional Core of Your Screenplay