Having Trouble Finding a Plot? This might help!

[Shindig]

The last feature one I had to read was in a nuthouse.  For the first 15 pages it felt like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest meets Of Mice and Men.

Then he ruined it by making them break out and turning it into a farce.

[LloJo]

It's quite easy to deal with mental illness in a short period of time. We here in the Colonies used to do it all the time, stash them in a loony bin, problem solved.
Hey! That's not a bad idea for a script.

[Shindig]

Not in Britain, it's not.

They're all shorts, too.  You can't deal with mental illness too well in such a short time.  Especially if you make it blindingly obvious from the outset.

[ScriptNurse]

I wonder if the fact that it's election season has anything to do with it ...

[Shindig]

From the ones people have been sending me, Mental illness seems the flavour of the month.

[padnar]

Thanks Script Nurse ,though Llyod Boyd and myself are busy in my script
padma

[ScriptNurse]

Need a plot? Go to: http://www.tennscreen.com/plots.htm

Here are Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations
 ... and in detail: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/polti_situations/polti_situations.htm