But there are some keys to crafting a good dramatic screenplay. So how do you achieve that type of reaction? Well, it’s not easy. And this is what a good dramatic screenplay should do. There’s something timeless about a good story that can make you think, reflect, feel, and react emotionally. There’s something powerful about a story that can reduce your father to tears – or an audience of fathers. There is something powerful about a story that just wraps around you and sucks you in, making you forget your own problems and forces you to care about those of an often fictional character or at least someone to whom you have no personal connection. There’s a reason why almost 50% of the Oscar Winning Best Pictures in the last 80 years have been dramas. But a good drama has to do so much more than that.

Why? Well, even the dumbest of comedic gags or basest of jokes, will inevitably make someone laugh and be entertained. But in my opinion it’s not as hard as crafting a good, successful, engrossing drama.

My good drama