You must know movies. But you can’t know them all. So this is a way to start. Take the script you’re working on and try to find what category it’s most like. Maybe you have moments in your script that borrow from all the categories? Maybe you start off your screenplay telling one type of story and end up telling another. That’s fine, too. (I mean, at the end of the day, I doubt you’ll sell that script, but we all have to learn the hard way. We’re screenwriters! Pain is the game!)
