<p>Flashbacks are a big, big part of many screenplays. They take the reader back in time, to tell him or her why the main character(s) are the way they are. The best place for flashbacks is at the very beginning or the very end of a screenplay—or both. The guys do script surgery on “Love, Simon,” and Ryan pitches his idea “Crazy Birds” in Logline Cage Match.</p>

Flashbacks are a big, big part of many screenplays. They take the reader back in time, to tell him or her why the main character(s) are the way they are. The best place for flashbacks is at the very beginning or the very end of a screenplay—or both. The guys do script surgery on “Love, Simon,” and Ryan pitches his idea “Crazy Birds” in Logline Cage Match.

0053: Flashbacks

The Screenplay Writers is a master class in writing screenplays by two screenplay writers who, between them, have crafted dozens upon dozens. And that doesn’t include the dozens more they’ve brainstormed. Join Ryan and Nathan as they share their vast stores of knowledge on the essential elements of a successful screenplay—as well as the challenges of the revered profession. Yeah, there are a few!

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