Foolscap Method Step 1 the Climax
Channel: Steven Pressfield
Date: 2023-06-07

TO BEGIN...START WITH THE END.

That’s right – go right to the bottom of the page – entry 10 – the climax of your story, the culmination of your business, the big scene of your screenplay. 

This is an old screenwriter’s trick that forces you to work towards a goal. “Luke blows up the Death Star. It can be as simple as that, but now you have a destination. All of the other elements will help you get there, but you need to have a destination to get started on this journey. You can’t cheat and say “I’ll figure it out when I get there”. That rarely works. 

The novelist John Irving says he always thinks about a novel for a long time before he starts to write — and he never begins writing until he knows the ending. I always know where it’s going. ... Because I wouldn’t know how I’m supposed to sound at the beginning unless I knew how I was going to sound when I got there.

So when you’re starting – figure out the end NOW. Write down your final scene, how the story ends.

As we go along we’ll talk about the other nine items – Genre, Inciting Incident, Narrative, Characters, etc., but remember –

TO BEGIN START WITH THE END. 
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