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: Crime / Drama / Thriller Movie Time: 113 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Frustrated defense worker William Foster (Michael Douglas) is gridlocked in Los Angeles traffic and decides to leave his car. He walks over to a nearby liquor store to buy a coke, but when he realizes the coke is 85 cents, he is outraged and begins his path of destruction with a baseball bat that he acquires from the Korean store owner. (00:10:06)