Story Engine = 2 Stroke = structure

DO YOUR screenplays FAIL TO CONNECT WITH READERS?

TEST THEIR STROKES:

A story has two engines, I mean strokes.  It's a 2 stroke engine.

ONE is the plot, situation, cool, funny, scary, heart warming, stuff.

TWO is the profound soul searching question plaguing your main character.

*Some movies lack one of these.  They usually suck.  Probably.

OAK-K,

The second stroke, non-sexual if you will...is the goddamn question.

A question that derives from the motivation.

EXAMPLE:
I want to do this, We need to reach this goal. etc BECAUSE  I'm going to prove that I am - ambitious, successful, a good person, strong, smart, beautiful, and the list goes on and on.

THEN

Your character will reach a point, possibly a PLOT POINT, in which they ASK....Am I ambitious?  Am I successful?  Am I a writer?!

And that question will be answered by another character.

THEN

Your character will reach another point, possibly another PLOT POINT, in which they will DECLARE...  I AM "fill-in with descriptive word"  or I AM NOT "fill-in with descriptive word"  BECAUSE "To be X you've got to do Y"

So AGAIN

At first, because of inciting incident, they will say:
1) We need to achieve this goal(engine stroke 1) because we need to prove we are X(engine stroke 2)

Then, because of obstacles they will ask:
2) How will I ever reach goal(engine stroke 1) and Am I even "X"(engine
stroke 2)

Finally, because of more obstacle they will declare:
3) I am or am not X(engine stroke 2) because a person who is X would act like Y.  And in order to reach the goal(engine stroke 1), I am going to have to do Y.