Even as a casual basketball fan, the NCAA basketball tournament has a way of sucking me in every year. But most of us watching actually know very little about the teams themselves. We're watching the games because we're hoping for a great story to unfold in front of our eyes. As I watched the opening rounds of the tournament this past weekend, I realized that these games had many parallels to what we try to do every day as screenwriters.
Here are five lessons we can learn about screenwriting from watching the college basketball tournament:
1. Everybody loves an underdogThey're called Cinderella stories for a reason. We don't necessarily care which #12 seed upsets a #5 seed (although, thank you, Yale). We just want to see the fairy tale come to life. Audiences root for the little guy. In terms of writing a script, make your protagonist the underdog, and you've already got viewers on her side.
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