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Title: The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
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Manufacturer: Silman-James Press
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| The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Excellent Book | This book is a magic!
I'm in the process of my writing, and having this book is like having a consultant just beside you.and a great one.
it has a lot of great ideas that helps me open my mind and look at the bigger picture.
i found the book also "comfortable" for the eye-big white pages,with large spaces between the lines that makes the reading simple and fun.
don't think twice. | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press A huge 'thank you' to Trottier. | I owe David Trottier a huge Thank you for making this book available. I had taken a class on screenwriting, but didn't fully grasp all the complicated aspects until reading Trottier's book. The man has a gift for teaching in a way that inspires at the same time he's informing in a manner that anyone can completely understand. As a result, I've had two screenplays place as semi-finalists in a major screenwriting contest and approx. 24 scripts are sitting on desks now being read and considered. I know this wouldn't have happened without the help of Trottier's book as a study guide. I cannot express enough my feelings of gratitude. If you're an aspiring screenwriter, this book is a 'must read'...give it several reads and make use of the practice sheets before sending out that first screenplay. You won't regret it!
Chrissy K. McVay
Author of 'Souls of the North Wind' | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Simply The Best | | If you only buy one book about screenwriting make sure that "The Bible" is the one. | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Brand new book | | I ordered this and I wasn't sure if it was brand new or used but it was new. I needed this for class and it got here pretty quick. It was definitely cheaper than it would have been at the school bookstore. | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Fantastic screen writer's "Bible" - Beginner to Advanced | | The Screenwriter's Bible is a fantastic book, especially for beginners in the screen writing business! Even if you're just writing for the sake of your own "therapy", this book is a great tool to use. Very easy to follow, gives actual examples that are very helpful and I was able to get into my own writing right from page one. I am writing in a variety of genres (trashy romance novels . com) and this is my "Bible" I use everyday. The more I write, the more I want to write, the more I read this book, the more I learn! Best wishes! ~ Bright Cat | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Book Description | | The Screenwriter's Bible is six books in one. Book 1 -- A screenwriting primer that provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. Book 2 -- A workbook that walks the writer through the writing process, from nascent ideas through revisions. Book 3 -- A formatting guide that presents correct formats for both screenplays and TV scripts. Book 4 -- A spec writing guide that demonstrates today's spec style through sample scenes and analysis. Book 5 -- A sales and marketing guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Book 6 -- A resource guide that provides addresses and contacts for industry organizations, schools, publications, support groups, services, contests, etc. Among its wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The "Bible" was a featured selection of The Writer's Digest Book Club. | | The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by Silman-James Press Amazon.com | | How does a spec script differ from a shooting script? What kind of fasteners should one use to bind a script? How did the term MOS come to mean without sound? You'll find the answers to these pressing questions and much more in David Trottier's eminently usable Screenwriter's Bible. The avuncular Trottier--a writer-producer, script consultant, and seminar leader--has written a friendly guide through the Hollywood morass. He touts it as six books in one: it's "a screenwriting primer, a screenwriting workbook, a formatting guide, a spec writing guide, a sales and marketing guide, [and] a resource guide." Much of Trottier's advice is common sense: "Don't write anything that cannot appear on the screen"; to keep casting options open, don't make your physical descriptions too specific; "don't say Ron Howard is looking at the project if he is not." But there are things to know about Hollywood that are, well, quirkier. Don't write the title of your script on the front cover or side binding; present action sequences using the "stacking action" style; in query letters and scripts alike, avoid "big blocks of black ink." Trottier's guidance--from character development and revision to queries and pitches--is invaluable. Getting in the door can seem impossible, but it's not, necessarily. "If you write a script that features a character who has a clear and specific goal," says Trottier, "where there is strong opposition to that goal leading to a crisis and an emotionally satisfying ending, your script will automatically find itself in the upper five percent." (By the way, MOS is said to have "originated with German director Eric von Stroheim, who would tell his crew, 'Ve'll shoot dis mid out sound'"). --Jane Steinberg |
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