On Screenwriting: Making Your Readers Participants in Your Story

A single page from the series finale of “BETTER CALL SAUL” provides a valuable lesson on how to involve your readers in your screen story.

Cole Haddon
Fanfare
Published in
3 min readMar 23, 2023

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Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk
Image from “BETTER CALL SAUL”, Sony Pictures Television Studios

U.S. screenwriting manuals largely focus on technical aspects of narrative. Character motivations, structure, what happens…

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