Welcome Kate Taylor!

[AtlanticFilmGear]

If you want to work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, you’d be smart to familiarize yourself with one way creatives there think of stories: They look at them as Genres (e.g., Action, Comedy, Drama), Cross Genres (e.g., Action-Comedy, Drama-Thriller), and Sub-Genres (e.g., Romantic Comedy, Action Adventure).

They also think about them as Movie Story Types. A few examples:

[Blank] From Hell, The

Contained Thriller

Mistaken Identity

Road Picture

Movie Story Types are not only helpful in developing and crafting your script, familiarizing yourself with tropes and dynamics common to the type, but also in generating and assessing story concepts. For instance, you may put together Assumed Identity and Road Picture, then come up with something awesome like this: North By Northwest

Kate Taylor is a gifted screenwriter who knows this and is a member of our new community. AFG would like to welcome her and invite her to share all her wisdom with the rest of us slugging through this discipline and passion and help light the way to awesomeness!

So with that, a BIG Welcome Kate Taylor!

[katetaylor]

Oh thank you so much! i am honored to be here and am always available for assisting in any way. In casual conversation i generally type (read: think) too fast to bother with caps, but i do strive for correct punctuation - so don't let that quirk of mine fool you into thinking you can tell what kind of writer i am.

Anyway, looking very forward to seeing these boards and this community develop. East coasters be sure to say a special hello so we know who is available for any offline meets, events or workshops, etc.

Until next!
~kate