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If you adhere slavishly to traditional screenwriting structures, your writing
may be formulaic and uninspired. Use the structures critically to learn how
other writers have used the form and then find the method that best suits
your creativity. However, if you are writing for a particular market, make
sure you produce a product that those kind of producers will buy. If you get
writers' block by thinking too deductively, then work on sequences, scenes
and characters until a structure comes into place. If you prefer to blueprint
it before filling in details, then map out a structure, using the following
guidelines to follow or rebel against:
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