150 Screenwriting Challenges - Collected Exercises Helps Writers In Dialogue And Character Enhancement

150 Screenwriting Challenges - Your Practice Sheet To Perfection

Are you experiencing sudden loss in churning out words for your ideas? Then, you, my friend, have experienced Writer’s block! Yes, it’s a thing and happens with most of the writers out there. Not only this, as a writer, you must have faced many more challenges and wondered if there’s any mantra to surpass them.

Eric Heisserer’s screenwriting book, titled 150 Screenwriting challenges, throws in 150 writing exercises that will improve your screenwriting in terms of dialogue, character, story, and idea generation. 

Published in November 2013, the 150 screenwriting challenges were curated with a mission to guide the budding screenwriters to produce high-class content for visual audiences. It enters the newbies with interesting writing prompts so they can work on their ideas easily. 

The book or novel transcends the author’s intentions to make the reader aware of the importance of getting your first writing draft done, however bad it may be, and then work on it to improve the whole thing. Do work to improve your writing. 

This book isn’t another screenwriting advisory writeup but an honest attempt to help writers develop their first draft. It provides writing exercises to make the learning process a wholesome one. It mainly focuses on bringing out the best writer in you, rather than lecturing you about the “secret formula” to make it big as a scriptwriter. 

The author, Eric Heisserer, currently works as a screenwriter. Through his experiences in the field, he learned tricks and tips to hone your skills and help you find your niche. The 150 exercises in the book lend you a unique voice and sail you through writer’s block.

The book contains writing challenges consolidated from the author’s Twitter handle, along with some newer ones. Some of the writing challenges are taken from Eric’s Twitter, and some get updated as and when required with fresh challenges. This book is quite similar in terms of the motivation to start your screenwriting, like others such as “Save the cat” and “Adventures In The Screen Trade.”