50 Sure- Storytelling Tricks! |
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Trick 30
Don’t get stuck in a genre trap
Genres are guidelines, not rules. List your favorite genres; list your favorite elements in each genre. Then, gather together all the elements you might like to include in your script. Pepper them throughout your screenplay so that your genre develops, rather than being set at the beginning and then stagnating.