Screenwriting category: 401 books
How To Be A Sitcom Writer
Secrets From The Inside
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Everyone loves - and hates - sitcom. On TV it's the goldmine genre, the one watched by millions. There's a special place in our hearts for Fawlty, Frasier, Blackadder and Brent. An absurd predicament, witty banter, a group of hilariously dysfunctional people: it all seems so easy. But is it? If you've...
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
A Writer in Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved to Hollywood and launched her own writing...
Secrets of Social Media Marketing
How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
""Secrets of Social Media Marketing"" is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online marketing. Social media has quickly moved from the periphery of marketing into the forefront, but this is a new and quickly-evolving field and there are...
Opening the Doors to Hollywood
How to Sell Your Idea, Story, Screenplay, Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Finally! A step-by-step guide to the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood.
Opening the Doors to Hollywood has all the information you'll ever need in order to tap into the $500 million spent yearly in Hollywood on acquiring and developing projects.
Discover how to:
Find a story
Rewrite...
Hollywood Jock
365 Days, Four Screenplays, Three TV Pitches, Two Kids, and One Wife Who's Ready to Pull the Plug
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Rob Ryder made that pledge to his wife, and he was determined to stick to it. As technical consultant on blockbuster sports films, he had seen up close how the film business works and what kind of chaos can, and usually does, ensue. And now he was ready to take it on!
Hollywood Jock is the...
Tales from the Script
50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
“Tales from the Script gathers notable veterans of the screen wars who demonstrate the basic truth of our adventures in Movieland: Writing is the easy part.” — John Sayles, writer/director of Lone Star and Eight Men Out
“Fascinating tales from the belly of the beast.” — Lawrence...
Your Screenplay Sucks!
100 Ways to Make It Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A lifetime member of the Writer's Guild of America who has had three feature films produced from his screenplays, Akers offers beginning writers the tools they need to get their screenplay noticed.
by Lucy Hay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more LGBT characters, more characters of color, more disabled characters, and more characters from various religions or classes. These characters also appear in genre pieces, accessible to the mainstream, instead of...
The Everything Filmmaking Book
From Script to Premiere -a Complete Guide to Putting Your Vision on the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Filmmaking is a notoriously difficult field to break into—a script’s chance of making it to production is a staggering 1 in every 140,000. But the millions of aspiring filmmakers can up their odds with The Everything Filmmaking Book. This engaging, easy-to-follow guide takes readers step-by-step...
by Rodney Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The digital film making revolution has over taken the available material that can be produced on a low to micro budget. With this book On Writing A Low Budget Screenplay I will offer clear and easy to follow lessons about what it takes to craft the low budget screenplay. There are dozens of things...
The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters
Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers
This book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it's actually like to be one. An inspiration to all would-be screenwriters, this book is about living the screenwriter's life -- the habits, writing environments, creative processes, daily...
Writing the Comedy Blockbuster: The Inappropriate Goal
The Inappropriate Goal
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Dying is easy, comedy is hard. So keep your comedy blockbuster alive and well and buy this book. Comedy has always been the backbone of the film business. In an age of sequels and brand-name movies based on established properties, the original comedy screenplay still delivers high profits. "Writing the...
Jaws in Space
Powerful Pitching for Film and TV Screenwriters
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The ability to pitch well is essential for all writers, directors and producers. Strong pitching skills will not only help you sell your projects, but also help you develop them, focus what makes a story work, clarify character and plot, and work more successfully with collaborators. This book takes...
Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense
The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899--1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes,...