For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to tell stories; in kindergarten, I drew "picture books" since I didn't quite have the vocabulary necessary to write the words I wanted. By grade two, I was well on my way to writing chapter books; I finished one novel by the beginning of grade seven (which now I read and think it is absolutely atrocious and would die of embarrassment if ever anyone else read it), and in the summer between grade nine and grade ten, I finished a second, much larger novel (nearly 400 000 words at last count, currently into its eighth round of revisions and re-writes - what can I say? I'm a perfectionist).
However, it is filmmaking that is my greatest passion, and I want to be able to write good screenplays. There are significant differences between novels and screenplays, as I'm sure is obvious, and for some time I had been at a loss as to how to properly go about translating the stories in my mind to script form.
Then one day, I found a book.
