Use these 5 screenwriting techniques to write a better novel. These proven screenwriting tips can make your novel come alive visually and help you avoid exposition and information dumping. In other words, Show, Don’t Tell.
We can all agree that movies are, at the heart of it, stories that are told in pictures. Cinema is a visual medium: it relies on action, dialogue, setting, and brings all of these together to register an emotion, to deliver a genre.
As novelists, we are told one of the sins to avoid in writing is ‘telling’ (exposition, backstory, information dumping) and that to keep our pace lively and our readers engaged, we must ‘show’ (narrative, dialogue, action played out moment by moment.) This is always easier said than done.
However, movies have a lot to teach us. So, what can the fiction writer learn from one of the most popular forms of storytelling in the world? What can visual writers teach us about a novel or short story? How can we steal some of their lightning so that it lives on the pages of our stories?
Here are five screenwriting techniques to write a better novel that will help you create a visually compelling story.
5 Screenwriting Techniques To Write A Better Novel
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