Three questions in this discipline are contracted in the phrase “dancing the Wadoogee,” part of the “Ackerman Way” of it. The .highland (“dot-highland”) file format and the software Celtx (“sell-tex”) facilitate this activity. Gee and Don Nicholl name a selective fellowship for newcomers to this discipline. An approach to this discipline known simply as “the Paradigm” may use the orientation points Pinch 1 and Pinch 2. This craft is taught by Blake Snyder’s book Save the Cat!, which stresses the value of loglines, and in seminars by Robert McKee. Figurative “doctors” who assist in this craft have included Herman Mankiewicz (“MANK-uh-witz”), the subject of the 2020 film Mank. Syd Field’s guide to this craft popularized a “three-act” structure for it. For 10 points, name this craft whose text outputs often follow a “one-page-per-minute” convention and may get “greenlit” by a studio. ■END■
ANSWER: screenwriting [or writing screenplays; or writing film scripts; or writing television scripts; or writing spec scripts; or writing teleplays; or being a screenwriter; or writing film treatments; accept script doctoring or script doctors; prompt on creative writing; prompt on fiction writing; prompt on film production; prompt on storytelling] (“Wadoogee” stands for “What does this character WAnt, and what will they DO to GEt it?”)
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