Writing the Second Act: Building Conflict and Tension in Your Film Script

by Michael Halperin

Every screenplay needs an attention-grabbing beginning and a satisfying ending, but those elements are nothing withour a strong, well-crafted middle.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Writer-Producer, MCA Television; Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox TV; Story Editor, Universal TV. Additional credits see imdb.com.
Publications: "My Name is David: Search for Identity", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses (Sept. 2020); "Fields of Poison: Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses; "Black Wheels", NEA Best African American Book List; Best-selling "Jacob’s Rescue", Random House; "Writing Great Characters", Lone Eagle; "Writing the Second Act", MWP; "Writing the Killer Treatment", MWP.
Plays: "Freedom, Texas" Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Best Revenge: A Harmless Subterfuge", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Major Rewrite", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "All Steps Necessary", L.A. premiere, Inkwell Theater; "Dancing with William Blake", Group Repertory Theatre, North Hollywood; "Spark of Reason", Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica; "Mela", Command Performance Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; "Chestnut Trees", premiere TCT Play Festival; "Driving James Dean", Celebrity Staged Reading Series.
Member: Dramatists Guild; Writers Guild of America