My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch Review

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My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch ReviewI've been writing screenplays for over twenty years and I've heard the term "punch it up" and I never really understood what that meant. Punch it what? Punch it where? Punch it how?
Though Mr. Schechter's book really doesn't use the term "punch it up" - it was in the back of my mind as I read. Simply put, punching up your screenplay - or toughening it up is the task of looking at the elements of your screenplay and making sure they're the best they can possibly be. Is your hero heroic? Why? Is your villain really a villain? How? What does the villain have in common with the hero and vice versa? Is your format correct? Are the elements in place? What of the plot points? Are you missing some? And sub-characters...what about them?
Mr. Schechter's book helps you strip your screenplay and story down to the core elements and then forces you to focus on them (as much as you may not want to) until you've worked through them and made your script better than it was and possibly better than many scripts out there.
How does he do this? By taking the basics of your story and parsing it out. Hero, villain, acts 1, 2a, 2b, 3, formatting, structure, characters, etc. By using graphs, photos and wonderful examples (recent films such as, but not limited to: "Avatar," "The Sixth Sense," "The Dark Knight" and, especially, "Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope"), to get his points across. And if the book isn't enough - he gives you links to free downloads to help you even further.
The only area where I feel the book stumbles a bit - is when Mr. Schechter creates the absolute of 44 plot points throughout your script. I'm not a fan of absolutes as I kind of figure that everyone's script is different and may not follow formulas to an absolute degree but, BUT, he makes a valid point. I've read many a script where the main characters hate each other on page 25 and love each other on page 30 and there were no plot points in between to show the transition. Do you need the 44 for a 108 page script? I don't know - but you certainly need more than what you probably have already. And this book will help you with that.
Personal note: As I read this book I couldn't help but think about how we (my co-writer and I) needed to punch up our hero in our current script and I used the tools and examples that Mr. Schechter provided to do just that. I also was able to re-think a previous script that I had written and saw how - without thinking - I had already had many of the elements discussed. You might find the same thing, too
Bottom line is that not only does Mr. Schechter's book give you the tools to strengthen your story so it can beat up other stories; it holds them down and gives them wedgies, too. One of the best books on punching up your script you will ever read.My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch Overview

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