https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/writing-jobs/w/screenwriter/5143/can-learning-to-write-screenplays-help-a-novelist_3f00_-_2d00_-podcasten-USTelligent Community 10https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/writing-jobs/w/screenwriter/5143/can-learning-to-write-screenplays-help-a-novelist_3f00_-_2d00_-podcastMon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT809ccca5-04d2-44bf-8f5c-ff0a6d33c80b:67912d77-33d0-4982-8af7-8ca324d8297eDavid Wilkinsonhttps://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/writing-jobs/w/screenwriter/5143/can-learning-to-write-screenplays-help-a-novelist_3f00_-_2d00_-podcast#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Screenwriter by David Wilkinson on 1/9/2017 12:00:00 AM<br /> <div class='asl-wikipage-body'><div class='asl-wikipage-summary'>Writing a novel like a screenplay can help you improve your writing process and storytelling skills. Author David Wilkinson talks about how writing screenplays helped him become a better novelist by changing the way he views the writing process. When he writes a novel, he outlines the book like a screenplay first using powerful imagery. In screenplays, images and action define the story, and what's said defines the characters. This is a practice of good storytelling—screenplays force you to "show" not "tell." The best way to learn how to write a screenplay is by doing it and reading other screenplays. Writing screenplays also gives you more options than writing a novel if you desire to turn your story into a movie or want to be a screenwriter.</div><div class='asl-wikipage-media'><a href="https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver.wikis.components.files/00-00-00-00-96/PCDavidWilkinsonCanLearningtoWriteScreenplaysHelpaNovelist.mp3">www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../PCDavidWilkinsonCanLearningtoWriteScreenplaysHelpaNovelist.mp3</a></div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: fiction, Nonfiction, Subscriber, podcast</div>