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The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide To Freelance |
"Written by two freelancers who broke the rules to win the game, this handbook contains a wealth of information for writers who are frustrated by the seemingly limited ways to operate in the freelance market. It explains that freelancers can negotiate for more money and better terms without risking their careers, shows that editors are not the writer-gobbling monsters many freelancers fear, and explains how to establish and foster work relationships. In this updated second edition there are more ideas, more rules to break, and more resources to get started, including a suite of appendixes covering topics such as contract procedures, getting paid, services for freelancers, generating ideas, and doing research. As inspiration, the book includes examples of real writers who have gone against expert advice and flourished. Being shy doesn't pay, and following the rules puts a writer in a long line of other sheep; with this text as a guide, writers can step out of the herd and build a success"
Price: 14.95
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Screenplay-Binding Mallet - Single Unit |
"This 4 oz. rubber mallet makes script binding a breeze! Hammer out your ideas then hammer in your brads to create a tight, professional script that will withstand numerous readings. The rubber tip protects the brads from damage as it flattens them securely to the page or cover of your script. The brads won't twist or turn, protecting your script pages from tearing or falling off. The brads are still easily removable for copying needs, and when re-inserted they will retain their tight binding. This rubber mallet will further ensure that your script will look great as it moves up the ranks!"
Price: 3.95
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Selling Your Story In 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way To Get Your |
"From the author of Writing Screenplays That Sell comes this exciting new book that reveals a one-minute technique for getting your screenplay or novel read by the major powers of Hollywood. Pitch guru Michael Hauge reveals: How to Design, Practice, and Present the 60-Second Pitch The Cardinal Rule of Pitching The 10 Key Components of a Commercial Story The 8 Steps to a Powerful Pitch Targeting Your Buyers Securing Opportunities to Pitch Pitching Templates And much more, including The Best Pitch I Ever Heard, an exclusive collection from major film executives"
Price: 12.95
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Proscript Manuscript Boxes - Set Of 5 Boxes |
"Submit your work in the most professional way possible. Constructed of sturdy white cardboard with a tuck flap, this gem protects up to 500 8.5 � X 11 � pages from the damages of mail travel. It ™s also an excellent way to store and label your earlier drafts. Set of 5 boxes. US Sales Only due to excessive shipping fees for International orders. Insider Tip: Use these boxes for mailing large manuscripts, like novels or more than one screenplay. Use the ProScript Script Mailers for one screenplay."
Price: 12.95
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On The Page - Dvd Edition |
"Got Ten Minutes? Write Your Screenplay! On the Page: the DVD is the ultimate resource for the busy writer, offering over 20 ten-minute writing tools that take your script from the brainstorming stage, through the outline, into a finished script, and even into the rewrite. Screenwriting instructor / script consultant Pilar Alessandra guides writers of all levels through each phase of the process with her engaging and user-friendly approach. An internationally renowned speaker on screenwriting and story pitching, Pilar ™s unique methods have helped hundreds of writers finish their screenplays, win major writing competitions, and make script sales to studios such as Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and Sony. Now she ™s assembled all of her exercises in one DVD so that you can get your screenplay out of your head ... and On the Page."
Price: 27.95
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Great Dialogue - Boxed - Edition (Windows Only) |
"Let ™s face it, no matter how good your story is, if the dialogue is stilted your movie script, book or play won't make it to first base. But if you have sparkling, well-constructed dialogue your story and characters will leap off the page. The best way to really improve your dialogue skills is to see great dialogue in action and have specific techniques you can use in different dramatic situations. Great Dialogue Software has a database of thousands of samples of the best dialogue from movies, TV, novels and plays, all available at the click of a button. Just type in the subject matter of your scene and click Find. Most of these samples have a detailed analysis to instruct you how the dialogue was constructed, the technique used, and why it works. But that ™s not all. You can also click on the Techniques button to see a list of the top 101 dialogue writing techniques. By clicking on a particular technique, you will be taken to a screen that explains the technique in"
Price: 19.95
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Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises From Today's Best Writers And |
"A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Su �rez, Margot Livesay, and more. What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer's block: the writing exercise. In Now Write!, Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today's best writers and lays bare the secret to the"
Price: 13.95
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The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your |
"Sometimes our best ideas come when we least expect them ""like at 3 o'clock in the morning � or in the shower � or when you're driving to work. You get the picture ""lots of ideas and no time or excess time and a dry well of ideas. Brian Kiteley comes to the rescue with more than 200 intriguing writing exercises designed to help you think, write, and revise anywhere, anytime. As a 15 year veteran author and director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, Brian has crafted and refined these exercises to be original, interesting, and filled with enough intrigue to get your creative ideas sparked and into story format. You'll learn how to: Transform stale writing patterns into exciting experiments in fiction. Shed anxieties that keep you from reaching your full writing potential. Craft unique ideas by combining personal experiences with unrestricted imagination. Examine and overcome all your fiction writing concerns, from getting started to overcoming writer's b"
Price: 15.99
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The 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That |
"Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning-be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself and of the world, to boldly-or not so boldly-stick a toe into the waters of something fresh, provocative, and exhilarating. To create fiction on the verge. In The 4 A.M. Breakthrough, companion to The 3 A.M. Epiphany, award-winning author and professor Brian Kiteley presents you with another 200 stimulating exercises, designed to help you expand your understanding of the problems and processes of more complex, satisfying fiction and to challenge you to produce works of which you never thought yourself capable. You'll learn how to: Train your writing instincts, so creation becomes a more organic, automatic process Tackle challenging concepts and themes, such as The Mind, Money & Class, Language Games, and History, laying a foundation"
Price: 16.99
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Basics And Beyond Tutorial: Final Draft 8 - Download Quicktime Edition |
"If you're just using Final Draft to format your screenplay, then you're missing out on the many professional features that make Final Draft the choice of Hollywood ™s hottest scribes. Unleash the power of this essential screenwriting program with the Basics and Beyond Final Draft 8 Tutorial, a video-based download that guides you visually through the entire program, from formatting to production. There ™s also a Quick Start section to get you going on your script immediately and a handy index that allows you to choose subjects in the order of your personal interest. The Basics and Beyond Final Draft Tutorial features lessons on: Outlining, Structure and Index Cards Modifying Formats Revision Modes Collaboration with Partners Working in Production New Features in version 8 And much, much more. Whether you've just purchased your first copy or you're a Final Draft veteran, The Basics and Beyond Tutorial will reveal valuable insight to help you quickly become a "
Price: 14.95
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Adaptation - Softcover Edition |
"One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who is adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief, writes himself and his twin brother (also played by Cage) into the movie. In the foreword, written exclusively for this Newmarket edition, Orlean reveals her own struggle to tell the story of the orchid, and her delight that strangley, marvelously, hilariously, Kaufman's screenplay has ended up not being a literal adaptation of my book, but a spiritual one. In a fascinating interview, Kaufman and Jonze take readers behind the scenes of Adaptation and their other films to speak about how they collaborate, where truth and fiction diverge, the challenges of balancing various storylines, why they do not like to comment on the meaning of their work, and Kaufman's approach to writing: I try to write in t"
Price: 18.95
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American Beauty - Softcover Edition |
"On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax. Captivated by Jane's sultry high school friend Angela, Lester decides to make a few changes in his mere existence ""changes that are less mid-life crisis than a life reclaimed. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even more maddening to his wife and daughter. Complicating matters, Lester finds an unexpected ally in Ricky, the teenage son of the new next-door neighbors, who sees life through a camera lens that has lately focused on Jane Burnham. In pursuit of a new vision of the American dream, Lester is about to learn that the ultimate freedom comes at the ultimate price. The 1999 winner of five Academy Awards ®, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, American Beauty boasts an accompli"
Price: 18.95
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Narrator For Macintosh - Download Edition |
"Our Macs use great voice synthesis, but let ™s face it, it ™s limited. You can ™t necessarily assign voices to your text and, if you wanted to hear what different folks have to say "" like in a group or a meeting, well, that ™s really limited too. Narrator changes all of that. Bring words to life! It ™s simple, really. Just paste your text into the window or import an RTF, .txt or .doc file into Narrator and your letter, story "" any text "" is brought to life using voice synthesis. You can choose different voices, rates, pitches, inflections and volumes for each character you assign, giving your text a wide range of expressiveness. There are also silent read-along options for stage directions or for you to read out your own parts. And if you need more characters, you can get additional voices and in several languages. Just visit Mariner Software's partner, Cepstral to audition more actors. Not just story-telling Narrator has it ™s pro"
Price: 29.95
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The Writer's Mentor: A Guide To Putting Passion On Paper - Softcover |
Practical writing strategies are linked with inspirational stories from the lives of famous writers.
Price: 16.95
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The Anatomy Of Story - Softcover Edition |
"The Anatomy of Story is John Truby's long-awaited first book, and it shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Truby's own unique approach for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative. Truby's method for constructing a story is at once insightful and practical, focusing on the hero's moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will dig deep within and explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effective story. Writers will come away with an extremely precise set of tools to work with - specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. They will construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a m"
Price: 17
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Screenplay: The Foundations Of Screenwriting Revised Edition - |
"A real gem on the craft of screenwriting, this fourth edition of Syd Field's preeminent book provides easily understood guidelines for writing a screenplay, from concept to finished product. Field makes the art of film writing accessible to novices and helps practiced writers improve their scripts, as he pinpoints stylistic and structural elements such as characterization and plot (and why the first ten pages are crucial). This masterful book provides tips and techniques on screenplay format; collaborations; adaptations; what to do after your screenplay is written and more. The highly-regarded scripts of Chinatown and Silver Streak are used to illustrate concepts. Syd Field is the preeminent analyzer in the study of American screenplays. -- James L. Brooks, Academy Award-winning writer, director, producer."
Price: 16
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Writing Your First Play - Softcover Edition |
"The second edition of Writing Your First Play provides the beginning playwright with the tools and motivation to tell a story through dramatic form. Based on many years of teaching experience, this book breaks the action, dialogue, characters and conflict into separate exercises that lead naturally from one to another and become increasingly more sophisticated. Before the reader has realized it, simple ideas have taken on the shape of a play. Topics include: Understanding the role action plays in drama Developing action and conflict to reveal character Writing powerful and persuasive dialogue Writing from personal experience, and how it can be both enriching and dangerous Knowing where to start the story and what details help to develop the storyline."
Price: 44.95
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The Art Of Adaptation: Turning Fact And Fiction Into Film - Softcover |
"A comprehensive handbook for screenwriters, producers, and directors who want to successfully transform factual or fictional material into film. Seger tells how to analyze source material to understand why some of it resists adapting. She then gives practical methods for translating story, characters, themes, and style into film. A final section details essential information on how to option material and how to protect one's self legally."
Price: 17
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Truby's Blockbuster 6.0 - Download Upgrade Edition (Mac & Pc) |
"I'm not exaggerating: Truby's Blockbuster revolutionized how I work. It's the simplest way I've ever found to build structure, character and theme. If you use a computer to write screenplays, you'll want Blockbuster. - Laurence Dworet, screenwriter Outbreak Blockbuster is an ingenious and multilevel guide through the maze of story organization... way ahead of any other writing tool I know of. - Jeff Arch, screenwriter Sleepless in Seattle I think of all of them Truby's the best. I actually use Blockbuster, because I think he's really good. For my taste, his stuff cuts the deepest, and allows you to develop the most detailed structure and outline. - Larry Wilson, screenwriter Beetlejuice, Addams Family Truby ™s Blockbuster puts hundreds of professional techniques at your fingertips to help you create a great story, in a fraction of the usual time and effort. Based on an interface that teaches as you write, Blockbuster shows you the deep structural weaknesses th"
Price: 59
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Atonement - Softcover Edition |
"The official screenplay book tie-in to the adaptation by screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Academy Award ® winner for Dangerous Liaisons) of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Academy Award ® -nominated Keira Knightley, directed by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice), from Focus Features. Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. Whe"
Price: 19.95
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The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 National Guide To Writing Your |
"At last ""the contemporary masters of memoir have come together to reveal their strategies and impart their advice. This book contains an unprecedented wealth of knowledge in one place. In The Autobiographer's Handbook, you ™re invited to a roundtable discussion with today ™s most successful memoirists. Let Nick Hornby show you how the banal can be brilliant. Elizabeth Gilbert will teach you to turn pain into prose. Want to beat procrastination? Steve Almond has the answer. Learn about memory triggers (Ishmael Beah: music) and warm-up exercises (Jonathan Ames: internet backgammon). These writers may not always agree (on research: Tobias Wolff, yes, Frank McCourt, no) but whether you ™re a blossoming writer or a veteran wordsmith, this book will help anyone who has ever dreamed of putting their story on paper, on writing themselves into existence. Featuring: STEVE ALMOND JONATHAN AMES ISHMAEL BEAH ELIZABETH GILBERT NICK HORNBY A. J. JACOBS MAXINE H"
Price: 15
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No B.S. For Screenwriters: Advice From The Executive Perspective - |
"No B.S. For Screenwriters: Advice from the Executive Perspective by in-demand script consultant and former development executive Daniel Manus is a must-read for any writer who has wondered �What is an executive thinking? � or �Why don ™t they see what I see? � Whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned professional, No B.S. For Screenwriters E-Book will give you a new perspective on your script, your craft and the entertainment business in a fun, honest and informative style! Topics in the book cover everything from pitching and pitchfests to how to read your script from the executive perspective, the top notes executives give on scripts, advice and tips on dialogue, tone, transitions, writing the period piece and the autobiography, the development process, loglines, treatments, one-sheets, query letters, synopses, branding, titles and much, much more!"
Price: 15
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The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis In The Creative Interpretation |
"Included in Disney's Recommended Reading List! Amid the hundreds of how-to books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that - and its principles are so valid that they apply equally well to the short story, novel and screenplay. Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people - their private natures and their inter-relationships - that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends upon an understanding of human motives. Why do people act as they do? What forces tranform a coward into a hero, a hero into a coward? What is it that Romeo does early in Shakespeare's play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Doll's House? These are a few of the fascinating problems which Egri analyzes. He shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic p"
Price: 15
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Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 - Download Competitive Upgrade Edition |
"Download Movie Magic Software & start using the best screenwriting software available. Our exclusive Movie Magic Screenwriter Platinum Package comes with all of the bonus items listed below (over $100 value), plus your purchase is backed by our 30-day money back guarantee. Platinum Package items include: How to Write a Marketable Screenplay on-demand webinar, The Pocket Screenwriting Guide eBook, Truby's Secrets: How to Write a Blockbuster Download Edition and the on-demand Writers University ™s Screenwriting Basics course. Format your script and outline it, too, with the newly redesigned Movie Magic Screenwriter 6! This award-winning screenwriting software formats movies, television, novels, stage plays and even comic book scripts, making it the only program for all types of creative writing. Now powered by NaviDoc technology, an innovative system that displays your script alongside an outline, scene cards, notes and bookmarks, this scriptwriting software has a screenwr"
Price: 99
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Save The Cat! Goes To The Movies: The Screenwriter ™S Guide To Every |
"In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, Save the Cat!, author and screenwriter Blake Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years. In the perfect companion piece to his first book, Snyder delivers even more insider's information gleaned from a 20-year track record as one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters, giving you the tools you need to write your movie. Designed for screenwriters, novelists, and movie fans, this book gives readers the key breakdowns of the 50 landmark movies from the past 30 years. From M*A*S*H to Crash, from Alien to Saw, from 10 to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snyder reveals how the screenwriters who came before you tackled the same screenwriting challenges you face today."
Price: 24.95
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No B.S. For Screenwriters: Advice From The Executive Perspective - |
"No B.S. For Screenwriters: Advice from the Executive Perspective by in-demand script consultant and former development executive Daniel Manus is a must-read for any writer who has wondered �What is an executive thinking? � or �Why don ™t they see what I see? � Whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned professional, No B.S. For Screenwriters E-Book will give you a new perspective on your script, your craft and the entertainment business in a fun, honest and informative style! Topics in the book cover everything from pitching and pitchfests to how to read your script from the executive perspective, the top notes executives give on scripts, advice and tips on dialogue, tone, transitions, writing the period piece and the autobiography, the development process, loglines, treatments, one-sheets, query letters, synopses, branding, titles and much, much more!"
Price: 15
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"Avalon, Tin Men, And Diner - Softcover Edition" |
"Breaking onto the scene in 1982 with Diner, which was hailed by one critic as �a masterpiece of observation, � Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson has since become recognized as one of the preeminent writer-directors of our time. Diner was set in Levinson ™s native Baltimore, during the late '50s of his youth and is, as Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker, �that rare autobiographical movie made by someone who knows how to get the texture right. � Portraying a close-knit and colorful group of young men hesitating on the brink of adulthood the film, said Rolling Stone, is �a completely unexpected, remarkably fresh comedy drama. � With Tin Men, Levinson returned to the richly detailed middle-class milieu of Baltimore and introduced another group of characters "" the �tin men � who make their living hard-selling aluminum siding to unsuspecting homeowners. A story of the petty but no less bloodthirsty rivalry between two salesmen, Tin Men was also greeted with unanimo"
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