Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story
Building Your Story World
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Every script has a setting, both a time and a place where the story occurs. Your "story world" is more than the physical or temporal - what makes the world are the rules you create for it. Understand the value of the rules that underlie your story and see how genres allow you to use pre-existing structures while enabling you to embrace a multitude of possibilities.