The 9 act structure is screenwriting's most nebulous creature. The little info you can find online is conflicting at best. Here is my attempt to clarify it with how I write MOWs.
This is thorough and is excellent advice. Having written a couple of produced Lifetime movies, and EP'd many MOWs, I wish you had written this article a few years ago! Nonetheless, it is great information for anyone wanting to enter the TV movie game. Well done.
Dick, I genuinely appreciate your feedback here. This post was a labour of love, certainly! Is there anything you would add to the above, given your experience?
Fascinating - and I’ll be looking at the structure of TV movies with new eyes now!
The best compliment I can get :)
This is thorough and is excellent advice. Having written a couple of produced Lifetime movies, and EP'd many MOWs, I wish you had written this article a few years ago! Nonetheless, it is great information for anyone wanting to enter the TV movie game. Well done.
Dick, I genuinely appreciate your feedback here. This post was a labour of love, certainly! Is there anything you would add to the above, given your experience?
I'm assuming you can apply the same structure to a novel?
I’ve honestly never considered that but I don’t see why not!