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| So You Want To Be A Screenwriter: How To Face The Fears And Take The |
"This is the first book to provide screenwriters with the inspiration and support they need to fulfill their dreams of creating powerful scripts for film and television. Writer/producer Sara Caldwell and writer/therapist Marie-Eve Kielson combine psychological insight with practical knowledge of the industry to provide a unique and personal approach to screenwriting, offering sensible, motivational tips on how to: Prepare for the challenges of a screenwriting career Create meaningful stories and believable characters Overcome writer's block Explore the power of collaboration Also included are helpful self-evaluation questionnaires for each stage of the screenwriting process. Informative interviews with such accomplished screenwriters as Tony Bui (Three Seasons), David Marconi (Enemy of the State), Anne Rapp (Cookie's Fortune), and Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters) provide the real-life feedback that screenwriters often need to thrive."
Price: 22.95
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| The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference - Softcover |
"In an increasingly digitized and complex publishing world, writers need to know how to protect themselves against copyright infringement, legal trouble, and unwise concessions to publishers. Still the author ™s foremost advocate for copyright protection, fair contracts, and free expression, the Authors Guild has once again partnered with Allworth Press to update this invaluable reference. Thoroughly revised to reflect the many changes in the publishing industry, the fourth edition offers plain-English explanations of legal and business aspects of the trade, from electronic rights and ebooks to contracts and accounting. Other topics include: Registering copyrights, including online Taxes and bookkeeping Following fair use guidelines Negotiating contracts with publishers and agents Obtaining permissions to use others ™ work Dealing with periodical, syndication, film, television, play, and audio rights agreements Handling business disputes Understanding libel, priv"
Price: 19.95
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| Television Writing From The Inside Out: Your Channel To Success - |
"Television Writing from the Inside Out is a how-to book with a difference: Larry Brody is a television writer-producer who has helped shape the medium. The book is rooted in experience, and told in the breezy style that is the Brody's trademark. This information given by Brody and the manner in which he gives it has made him a writing guru to thousands of hopefuls. He has helped launch the careers of many new writers. Television Writing from the Inside Out covers: what writing jobs are available; the format, structure and stages of teleplay development; tips on the writing of different genres - drama, comedy, action, the television film, soap opera, animation; and sample teleplays by Brody and others, with analyses of why they were written the way they were in terms of creativity, business, production and insider politics. � Television Writing from the Inside Out presents all that Larry Brody has learned about writing, selling and surviving in the television industry. The best-kept "
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| Letters To Young Filmmakers: Creativity & Getting Your Films Made - |
"Letters to aspiring directors, producers, screenwriters and others who want to make independent or studio films by the UCLA professor that Geoffrey Gilmore (for many years the Director of the Sundance Film Festival) calls �one of the foremost teachers of film in the world. � Suber emphasizes that what is required of a professional in the world of film is not just technique, but an understanding and ability to deal with the realities of how films get made. Endorsements Foreword by Mike Medavoy (head, Orion Pictures, TriStar and Phoenix Pictures, involved with over 300 films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo ™s Nest, Apocalypse Now, The Terminator, The Silence of the Lambs, Shutter Island and Black Swan.) �Letters to Young Filmmakers is full of wisdom, insight, anecdote, and knowledge distilled from years of experience, relationships, and contemplation. His genuine understanding of how the film business operates makes his advice to young filmmakers sound, inspiring and, a"
Price: 20.95
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| William Goldman: Five Screenplays With Essays - Softcover Edition |
"A collection of five screenplays by this Academy Award-winning writer. Includes: All the President's Men Magic Harper Maverick The Great Waldo Pepper Also features essays by Goldman: Getting Even or Creative Accounting, Sneak Previews, or Why Did She Have to Die?, Hype or Consequences: A Brief History of the Future, Shooting from the Hip: Don't You Know Anything About Screenwriting?, and Nothing for Me to Steal: The Secret Life of an Adaptation."
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| Breaking In Outside Of Hollywood Webinar - On Demand Edition |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR When screenwriters ask an industry insider for advice, the most common response writers hear is, �Move to L.A. � But Jeanne Veillette Bowerman says, �Not so fast. � Jeanne has built a strong network for herself right from her country home in New York State while only making a handful of trips to L.A. a year. She ™ll show you her key secrets and how to navigate the plethora of social media outlets available. This on-demand webinar covers creative, out-of-the-box strategies to use right from the comfort of your home, miles away from the Hollywood hills, and still have a shot at breaking down the barriers and breaking in. Learn the secrets to preparing for a successful trip to L.A. and how to continue building those relationships after you ™re back home. When you live far from L.A., networking is crucial. Learn the enigma surrounding networking ""and find out how to create a strong community of support. Traveling to pitchfests requires time an"
Price: 79
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| William Goldman: Four Screenplays - Softcover Edition |
"Two-time Academy-award winning writer gives his irreverent insights into the writing, producing and casting of four of his own screenplays: Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, Misery, and Academy winner, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In four merciless revealing essays, he covers the psychic and political terrain of Hollywood that gained him such a following from his first book, Adventures in the Screen Trade. He dissects how to write a screenplay, how stars happen, the art of adaptation, and the process of casting, all critical elements to his own successes. Includes the script excerpts for each film, although the examples are not necessarily those up on the screen, proving his case about how difficult, how collaborative, and how intoxicating the filmmaking process is. He holds nothing back, nothing!"
Price: 18.95
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| How To Write The First 10 Pages Of A Feature-Length Screenplay Webinar |
"Love movies? Think you could write one? Give it a shot! It's easier than you think to start writing your own screenplay. This course will give you the basics to start writing the first 10 pages of a brand new script. Be it a wild adventure into space or the family history you've been waiting to get down on paper ""get started with this webinar. Today, it ™s easier than ever to learn how to become a screenwriter. From courses to books, to downloading scripts on the Internet to listening to DVD commentary, the tools of creating a compelling story for the screen have never been closer. During this 90-minute course, you will learn how to build a story around the three principle elements: concept, conflict, and character. You ™ll learn the basics of writing a treatment, a great way to summarize your story before you start writing script pages. And, you ™ll learn the basic three-act structure, as well as formatting styles for getting started with pages. This cour"
Price: 79
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| The Dreaded Rewrite Webinar - Ondemand Edition |
"When screenwriters finish a first draft, the desire to get their baby out there is tremendous. But putting a script into the market prematurely is an immediate death sentence, not only for the script, but also potentially for a writer's career. You have one shot at a first impression. Learn how to find the appropriate writers to review your work and how to analyze and organize the feedback they give you. Get information on hiring professional script consultants and find out if they're really worth the money. You'll learn tips to improve every scene, the value of a synopsis, how to evolve your characters, how to cut unnecessary pages from your script and more. This class will explore the best techniques to tackle the dreaded rewrite like a pro. What You'll Learn: How to find writers to share work if there are none in your network. How to analyze feedback received from other writers. How to organize feedback and use it most effectively. The value of a synopsis to the rewrite p"
Price: 79
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| The Writer's Legal Companion: The Complete Handbook For The Working |
"For most writers, negotiating the legal maze of publishing is as challenging as getting their words in print. This comprehensive guide offers writers solid advice on all aspects of publishing law. Candid and readable, it cover everything from copyrights and taxes to libel laws, subsidiary rights, and the obscure clauses in publisher's contracts. As important resource for editors, agents, or anyone in print or electronic publishing, this updated third edition of The Writer's Legal Companion features essential, irreplacable information on: publishing contracts, good and bad clauses libel, slander, and invasion of privacy issues electronic rights conditions the business of publishing, including marketing and selling books magazine publishing collaboration and agents' agreements federal income tax considerations for freelance writers copyright legalities Whether you write an occasional magazine article or publish a new book every year, The Writers Legal Companion will save you time, and re"
Price: 21
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| "Writing Successful Loglines, Query Letters, And One-Sheets - Ondemand" |
"Success in Hollywood is often about making great first impressions. Your logline and query letter are the first and sometimes only things an executive or agent is going to read of your work. It ™s critical that your logline and query letter are attention grabbing, tell them something of substance, make you look good, and most of all ""make them want to read more. If you ™ve sent out hundreds of queries and haven ™t gotten script requests, you ™re doing something wrong. As a development executive, producer, and script consultant, Danny Manus has read thousands of query letters and countless loglines. He has taken over 3,000 pitches at pitchfests, so he knows what it takes for a writer to standout and stand above the rest! This class will cover how to construct proper loglines, query letters, and one-sheets: what to include and what not to include in each, the difference between loglines and taglines, what executives are looking for, how to query for repres"
Price: 79.99
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| The Writer's Essential Tackle Box: Getting A Hook On The Publishing |
"The Writer's Essential Tackle Box is far more than a how-to manual, but more a parting of the clouds. This compelling and unique book is an insider's perspective to the publishing industry, offering a witty and colorful view of what it's like to sit on the other side of the desk. Editor Lynn Price interviews industry professionals, defines the many types of publishers currently populating the industry, discusses her experiences with rejection letters and Halleluiah, I think we got us a winner! and finishes up with Writer's Survival Style Guide delivered in a humorous voice that proves to be memorable."
Price: 19.95
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| Writing Movies: The Practical Guide To Creating Stellar Screenplays - |
"To break into the screenwriting game, you need a screenplay that is not just good, but great. Superlative. Stellar. Writing Movies provides everything you need to know to reach this level. In a single book. And, like the very best teachers, Writing Movies is always practical, accessible, and entertaining. Inside you ™ll find: Explanations of the fundamental elements of screenwriting craft (plot, character, scenes, etc.) Insight into such crucial (but seldom discussed) topics as description, voice, tone, and theme Analysis of five brilliant screenplays ""Die Hard, Thelma & Louise, Tootsie, Sideways, and The Shawshank Redemption Strategies for breaking into the business A guide to screenwriting format Assignments that strengthen your command of screenwriting craft Step-by-step tasks that take you from rough idea to polished script Written by Gotham Writers ™ Workshop expert instructors and edited by Dean of Faculty Alexander Steele, Writing Movies offers the"
Price: 15.95
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| Sin And Syntax: How To Craft Wickedly Effective Prose - Softcover |
"Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone."
Price: 14.95
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| Is Your Concept High Enough? Webinar - Ondemand Edition |
"About the Webinar In the fast and furious world of screenwriting for Hollywood, most everyone is familiar with �HIGH CONCEPT � but the real question is... Is your high concept high enough? In this webinar, The Unknown Screenwriter leads you through the maze of creating your own high concept before you start writing that knockout spec screenplay. Find out what it takes to get producers, managers, and agents to sit up and take notice of your high concept so that they ask you to send them your spec screenplay. Unk has developed a deceptively easy technique to develop your movie idea into a high concept that will get producers, managers, and agents to say �yes � to sending them your screenplay. Unk provides the answers to questions such as: What is high concept about? What are the elements that every high concept must have? What is the �known quantity � that will make my high concept even higher? How can I turn my spec screenplay idea into a high concept? How can I "
Price: 79.99
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| The Screenwriter's Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Marketing Guide For |
"Haddad's guide aims to help screenwriters get their scripts past the office recycling bin and to the people who are in a position to do something with them. The reference offers information on contests, fellowships, grants, and development opportunities; reaching and working with agents, managers, and producers; and general resources including information on copyright registration, emergency funds, colonies, retreats, residencies, guilds, unions, professional organizations, motion picture libraries and museums, networks and cable channels, state arts agencies and film commissions, and film studios. Haddad (a story analyst for Paramount Pictures) also includes an industry glossary and a contest submission calendar."
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| Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot - Softcover Edition |
"Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot is a memoir about the magic of making films and the magic of finding true love. If you love the movies and if you're a romantic at heart, this is your dream book. A must-read for movie lovers and film students who will discover what it would be like to work in the dream factory, to be a film director, to have an inside peek at Hollywood ™s inner workings making movies and TV shows. With production work spanning over 100 credits from shorts to TV shows to feature films, Guy Magar ™s memoir brings to life the many personalities and stars encountered, and it tells the hilarious stories on the rocky road to Hollywood success. �Kiss me quick before I shoot has been my welcoming catchphrase to my wife Jacqui whenever she visited on-set, seemingly always just before I rolled cameras, � says Guy Magar �and so this book is also about a deeper magic, the magic of finding a life partner. �Jacqui and I were married in a costumed Renaissance-theme"
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| The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery - Softcover Edition |
"Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction. It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher ""by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the final draft. Each weekend you'll focus on a specific task ""learning the basics of novel-writing, the special demands of mystery-writing, and the secrets professionals use to create stories one scene at a time, building to a shivery, satisfying climax. Using Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library as a model for the classical mystery tale and Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park for the hard-boiled mystery, this unique step-by-step program gives you all the information you need to reach your ultimate goal: a finished book in just 52 weeks! Let two successful masters of the genre show yo"
Price: 15
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| Writing Through The Darkness: Easing Your Depression With Paper And |
"Virtually everyone copes with significant grief and turmoil at times. Writing Through the Darkness offers a menu of writing approaches--freewriting, memoir, poetry, and storytelling--to alleviate the anguish, confusion, and pain associated with depression. Quotes and writing samples from students provide inspiration and encouragement, and extensive resources direct readers to additional writing prompts, instruction, and accurate mental health information and assistance. Practical how-to discussions and plentiful exercises demonstrate how writing can help those with depression modulate their moods, develop greater insight, feel a sense of accomplishment, and reconstruct a damaged life. A practical and supportive guide to using creative writing exercises to ease the symptoms of depression. One in five people will struggle with depression during their lifetime. Research-based techniques and stories from a decade of results with a Stanford University writing group for people with moo"
Price: 15.95
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| Turning Life Into Fiction - Softcover Edition |
"A highly entertaining and indispensable manual on how to write good fiction If you want to write at all, whether from real life or not, you must be willing and able to use your imagination. That means you must be willing to take risks and sometimes look the fool. You must be willing to transform experience, not simply record it. If you were a good liar, daydreamer, or troublemaker as a child, you ™ll probably make a good fiction writer. Daydreams, lies, and trouble. That ™s the stuff of fiction. In Turning Life into Fiction, Robin Hemley offers a highly entertaining and in-depth manual ""with writing exercises on how to convert real life into good storytelling. He covers a wide range of subjects, including how to record and generate ideas from daily life and how to write effectively using true anecdotes, real places, and real people. A self-proclaimed liar and thief, Hemley also addresses the legal and ethical concerns of �borrowing � experience from the lives of str"
Price: 16
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| Writing The Romantic Comedy: From Cute Meet To Joyous Defeat: How |
"From the slapstick shenanigans of Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby to the sexy repartee of Shakespeare in Love, romantic comedies have delighted filmgoers "" and challenged screenwriters "" since Hollywood's Golden Age. Whether you're a first time screenwriter, or an intermediate marooned in the rewriting process, this thoroughly charming and insightful guide to the basics of crafting a winning script will take you step by step from cute meet all the way to joyous defeat. You'll learn the screenwriting secrets behind some of the funniest scenes ever written; how to create characters and dialogue that set the sparks flying; why some bedroom scenes sizzle and others fall flat; and much more. Writing the Romantic Comedy features case studies drawn from beloved romantic comedies such as When Harry Met Sally, Annie Hall, Tootsie, and The Lady Eve, as well as field-tested writing exercises guaranteed to short-circuit potential mistakes and ensure inspiration."
Price: 15
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| True Romance: The Screenplay - Softcover Edition |
"True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, is a hilarious, twisted road movie about which Interview raved, A pop-crazy, instant B classic with A clout. Alabama, a hooker, and Clarence, a comic-book store clerk, fall in love and hit the road in a purple Cadillac. They are going to Los Angeles to start a new life "" with a suitcase full of cocaine accidentally stolen from Alabama's defunct ex-pimp. Guided by the spirit of Elvis, Clarence attempts to sell the coke to a top Hollywood director, putting the young lovers in the middle of a standoff between the narcs and the Sicilian gangsters who rightfully own the cocaine. This publication of Tarantino's first screenplay, written when he was still a video-store clerk, contains the original ending and Tarantino's answers first, questions later structure, both of which were altered by Scott."
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| Rebels On The Backlot: Six Maverick Directors And How They Conquered |
"The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in Hollywood. Sharon Waxman of the New York Times spent the decade covering these young filmmakers, and in Rebels on the Backlot she weaves together the lives and careers of Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction; Steven Soderbergh, Traffic; David Fincher, Fight Club; Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights; David O. Russell, Three Kings; and Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich."
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| The Seinfeld Scripts: The First And Second Seasons - Softcover Edition |
"Jerry. George. Elaine. Kramer. We've followed their misadventures for nearly ten years on Thursday nights. Here, finally, are the scripts of the first two seasons that will take you back to the beginning of Seinfeld. Featuring the first 17 episodes ever aired, The Seinfeld Scripts contains all the great lines that have kept us laughing for years: the pilot episode, The Seinfeld Chronicles, where it all began; George introduces his importer/exporter altar ego Art Vanderlay in The Stakeout; Kramer becomes obsessed with cantaloupe in The Ex-Girlfriend; Jerry and George meet Elaine's dad in The Jacket; is Jerry responsible for a poor Polish woman's death when he makes The Pony Remark?; Jerry and Elaine decide to become intimate again in The Deal; what will George do when he is banned from the executive bathroom in The Revenge?; and Jerry, George, and Elaine wait for a table in The Chinese Restaurant. It's all here: the award-winning writing of Seinfeld, the defining sitcom of our age. "
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| The Writer's Book Of Hope: Getting From Frustration To Publication - |
"In 1889, the editor of the San Francisco Examiner, having accepted an article from Rudyard Kipling, informed the author that he should not bother to submit any more. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers, the editor wrote. I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. A century later, John Grisham was turned down by sixteen agents before he found representation-and it was only after Hollywood showed an interest in The Firm that publishers began to take him seriously. The anxiety of rejection is an inevitable part of any writer's development. In this book, Ralph Keyes turns his attention from the difficulty of putting pen to paper-the subject of his acclaimed The Courage to Write -to the frustration of getting the product to the public. Inspiration isn't nearly as important to the successful writer, he argues, as tenacity, and he offers concrete ways to manage the struggle to publish. Drawing on his long experience as a writer and teacher of w"
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| What They Don't Teach You At Film School: 161 Strategies For Making |
"You don't have to go to film school to make movies, and What They Don't Teach You at Film School offers you 161 practical strategies to make your movies no matter what. A lot cheaper than a year's tuition, this book has solutions for surviving both the large and small crises of filmmaking. From how to finish (or get started on...) your script, through dealing with jealous actors, abandoned lovers, mutinous crews, angry landlords, and even angrier investors, to what to do when you're finally done, this is an invaluable guide. Film-school veterans Camille Landau and Tiare White draw from their experiences and those of other filmmakers to show you how to make a film on your terms, no matter who or what is standing in your way."
Price: 14.99
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| Script To Novel: Double Your Odds Of A Sale Webinar - Ondemand Edition |
"Today ™s screenwriters are finding fewer opportunities to take their creative work to the film industry and even less opportunity to stay attached to their work when bought. Yet, even in such times, under such circumstances, options and strategies exist to develop and advance a screenwriter ™s career ""perhaps the best being novelization. Published novels and non-fiction books stand a much better chance of getting read by Hollywood for source material than spec scripts in today ™s market "" and a published author stands a better chance of staying attached and getting that �screenplay by � credit when their book is optioned by Hollywood. Now, determined to find their audience and another way to the silver screen in a tight economy, screenwriters are learning that having both a novel and screenplay version of their story makes them more attractive to Hollywood than ever, increasing their odds of a sale in both literary and film markets. What You'll Learn: "
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