Fortitude. Courage. Endurance. Pick your noun of choice, but you must live it. Because if you want to be a screenwriter, it's the only way you'll survive. You've heard the clichés: "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger", "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again", "There is no education like adversity." But even though the quotes are overused and have lost some of their potency, they still carry tremendous truth. The fact is that writing a screenplay is HARD. If you're a screenwriter with a few scripts under your belt, you know this already, but if you're…

Screenplay Genre: Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi Movie Time: 116 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) meets Doc Brown (Christopher Loyd) at the Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 AM to help him conduct an experiment involving a tricked-out DeLorean. When the DeLorean carrying Doc's dog Einstein disintegrates in a flash of lighting, flames shooting between their legs, Doc is ecstatic shouting, “Eighty-eight miles per hour!” Marty can only look on in horror thinking that Doc has killed Einstein. He soon learns, though, that Doc has just invented time travel.…