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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers Book

The next best thing to having a top screenwriter in your living room, this book not only shows how to be a screenwriter but what it's like to actually be one. Includes...Read More

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    Aspiring screenwriters don't need another book on how to write a screenplay, says Karl Iglesias. What they need is a book on how to be a screenwriter. Voilà: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, featuring interviews with 14 screenwriters, arranged by subject. The result reads like a panel discussion, touching on such subjects as collaboration, schmoozing, discipline, Hollywood, and story pitching. The dream of winning a Hollywood jackpot has lured everyone and his gardener into the screenwriting game. Still, despite the unencouraging odds, "all you need to do is write a good script," says Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls). Some of the book's best advice concerns one of the screenwriter's most formidable hurdles: getting a screenplay read. Submit it to film festivals and screenwriting competitions, or follow Tom Schulman's (Dead Poet's Society) advice and hire an entertainment attorney. After all, "most of them know a lot of agents." --Jane Steinberg

  • Product Description

    As an aspiring screenwriter, you dream of one day seeing the fruits of your vision splashed across the big screen. Whether you believe great screenwriters are made or born, you'll be on the fast track to finding your Muse after tuning in to the secrets of fourteen of Tinseltown's top screenwriters, including Ron Bass (Rain Man), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), and Steven DeSouza (Die Hard). Author Karl Iglesias, Hollywood story analyst and development executive, personally interviewed these top contemporary scribes to learn their hints, tips, and advice for making it as a screenwriter. In The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, you'll learn how to make the greatest impact with a screenplay, using pacing, dialogue, and character development. You'll also follow each writer through a typical "day in the life," sharing eye-opening experiences that will amaze, amuse, and ultimately, inspire you. If you want an edge in an industry that demands it, sample from this smorgasbord of wisdom from masters of their craft.

  • 1580625509
  • 9781580625500
  • Karl Inglesias
  • 31 October 2001
  • Adams Media Corporation
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 232
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