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Have your hero start a fire at the villain's office building. That should make the villain (or his lackey) come a-running to check on the status of his Macguffin.

Bolding mine. Your hero is now operating outside the law, correct? Why, then, can't he plant/fabricate any evidence he may need? Does the hero already know the villain has an office? Then why not put up surveillance at the office, to catch the villain coming and going? If the Macguffin is...

I know my way around literary agents, but are there any resources out there for locating and checking the track record of script agents? Does the process work the same way as prose writers who seek literary representation (locate agent with similar tastes, query, harvest rejections, repeat)...

I guess realism and believability can both be achieved through research. Find a professional in law enforcement or whatever field you have need of, and offer to buy them a few coffees in exchange for grilling them for information. Most professionals I've used (granted, they were historians and...

Thanks, JoshL and Ernest! It truly does seem like a very friendly, and creative-friendly, place! I went ahead and posted something in the screenwriting forum. God help the n00bie ;) Best, Scott

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Thanks, that1guyy! Actually, the "Southern USA" in my location refers to Alabama, though I do wish it were Southern CA! Does anyone know if it's either encouraged or frowned upon to post sections of a script-in-progress in hopes of getting feedback? I'm working on one, have had some varying...

Hello, all! Very glad to be here! I am a working novelist who is looking at possibly expanding into feature film writing. The bulk of my work has been in historical fiction -- from ancient Egypt, Greece, Persia to the era of the Crusades. I would love to try my hand at writing a script in...