| Are you considering writing a screen play or a | | | | chapter. |
| novel that you want to turn into a screen play or | | | | Some novelists who are writing only for the |
| perhaps be ready in case Hollywood calls one | | | | movies will work hard to get it down to two or |
| day? If so you are in luck, that is if you are using | | | | three scenes per chapter, short fast suspenseful |
| the new Microsoft Word 2007, because you can | | | | chapters. When writing a screen play you have |
| download a formatted template for your next | | | | probably seen a paragraph at the top of a screen |
| screen play and then simply write into that word | | | | play chapter that says "Scene Opens Up with" |
| template and then when you are done convert it | | | | and a description of the some sort of visual |
| all into a .PDF file and presto you have a screen | | | | imagery depicted in words. |
| play successfully written and ready to distribute. | | | | For a writer who likes to write novels or books, |
| Well first you have to write it of course and | | | | even if they are only eBooks of fiction writing a |
| writing a scene for a screen play or a | | | | screen play, at least one makes a lot of sense, |
| conversation for one of the chapters of your | | | | because it is excellent practice and it helps you |
| novel with two people conversing is not as hard | | | | mentally prepare and be ready to write a novel |
| as you might think. They are indeed very similar | | | | that can later be turned into a movie quite easily, |
| tasks. If you are writing a novel which will be | | | | so consider doing one simply as an exercise, and |
| converted into a Movie for the big screen then | | | | it may later very much help your career as a |
| you probably wish to have four to six scenes per | | | | writer? |