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Section A · Author: <span>Jack Brislee</span> 17 entries 26 August 2026

Author: <span>Jack Brislee</span>

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  1. The Idea: The Seven Elements Of A Viable Story

    The Idea is a book that could save screenwriters weeks, months or even years of time wasted on projects that…

    5 min
  2. Screenwriting Book Review: Constructing a Story

    Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Le Clown et l'Enfant (2017) Language: English Publisher's Store: https://2ks.co/leclown Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2ICpsGD THE AUTHOR Yves Lavandier took a degree in…

    6 min
  3. Not on the screen? Not on the page!

    If it’s not on the screen, it can’t be on the page. While most screenwriting books allude to this rule,…

    4 min
  4. No Passive Protagonist!

    Jack Brislee shatters some of the screenwriting principles the gurus so passionately advocate. First he introduces us to the rule,…

    6 min
  5. The Hero Must Change!

    Blake Snyder describes it thus: “The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in…

    4 min
  6. Introduce the Hero on Page One!

    In a new regular series on The Story Department, Jack Brislee will shatter all the screenwriting principles we have so…

    3 min