Good charts

I guess it's obvious I get my writing tips from the cheesy "So You Want to Be a Writer" magazines above the literary journals at Barnes & Noble.

My favorite chart (top) is from one of those magazines, Scriptwriting Secrets, and spells out the stages of a movie plot.  I haven't put it to the ultimate test yet, but with the chart, and the knowledge that a typical Hollywood movie has 182 scenes, the actual writing should be a snap.

And if you got stuck on Scene 171 -- where aliens rescue the heroine but, because of their strange tongue it's hard to tell if they plan to beatify or boil her -- you can rate her pain (and yours) with the poorly colored, extended version of the Wong-Baker FACES Pain chart here.  (I agree with their assessment that "interferes with concentration" is worse than "interferes with tasks".)

And finally, I searched in vain for a chart of my favorite rating system, the old Film Threat magazine movie scale (in place of 1 to 5 stars), so I made one from the standard face pain chart.  I'm not sure if I've got the faces in correct order, but here it is: