Can Learning to Write Screenplays Help a Novelist? - video

Writing a novel like a screenplay can help you improve your writing process and storytelling skills. Author David Wilkinson talks about how writing screenplays helped him become a better novelist by changing the way he views the writing process. When he writes a novel, he outlines the book like a screenplay first using powerful imagery. In screenplays, images and action define the story, and what's said defines the characters. This is a practice of good storytelling—screenplays force you to "show...