This made so much sense, I was just a rookie at the time. Self taught. He would tell me you have excellent skill, you just need to learn all the technical aspects of design… then you will overcome the master. He was a thirty-something Chinese man from Ghana. No joke; he spoke like an old Wise Kung Fu Master. That advice has been applied to screenwriting as well.

There will be many people who will complain about structure and how confining or constraining it is to the creative process. Truth be told: if you want to sell your screenplay, the studio has the final opinion.