It seems you are ready to start writing. You sit in a comfortable place your notepad or laptop is on. your coffee is ready. You are eager to have this screenplay printed on your desk ready to pass to a producer or an agent but stop.
First, answer this question: have you chosen the right concept? Before any action, find the right answer to this question.
But how?
Let’s go a few steps backward. Let’s see if the original concept of your future screenplay is a valid one. You decided to put all your energy and time on this idea for a long period of months or maybe a year.
First: search in Google to see if this concept is a new one. Don’t waste yourself by telling a story that already been told a hundred times. The world is tired of repetitive concepts, give the world something new.
Choosing the right idea is a time-consuming job. You have to spend weeks or more likely months do your research and due diligence.
Second: see if this idea is something brand new which doesn't leave you alone, you think all the time about it, even when you don't want to think about it, is it the idea that you can't forget it or something about it. Is it an idea which you could see yourself working on it for a year or more? Is it an idea that you love so much? If yes, let's go to the next step.
Third:
Write your outline. Is it easy to write? Do you know the beginning? Do you know what happens in the middle and the most important thing do you have a clear idea about the ending?
if yes then you have a winner on your hands. Because if you understand your protagonist and you know where she is going to be at the end of the story, then you must know how she changes.
Why the protagonist change? Because the story is about one character and how that character changes. If you don't have a clear idea about your character arc then your idea will be dead on arrival. so if you have a brand new idea which you love it and you know how your protagonist changes throughout the story, what the hell are you waiting for, renew your coffee and start

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