A collection of questions designed to help you find the real problem with your story before you start rewriting it. Works on screenplays, novels, pilots, and short films.
You don't read it front to back. Find the complaint that sounds like yours ("my second act drags," "readers don't care about my characters," "the ending doesn't land") and follow the questions until one exposes the problem. Then fix that before diagnosing five more.
Inside: a six-question triage for when something feels wrong and you don't know what, a two-page Quick Index of 27 story problems, 15 full diagnostic conversations, 12 quick diagnostics, and a Repair Plan to find the one change that fixes the most. 30-page fillable PDF.