The Screenwriter's Bible; A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The Screenwriter's Bible; A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

Trottier, David

Business & Money

Silman-James Press

Presents the fundamentals of screenwriting, an overview of the entire writing process, script formatting, speculative writing style, sales and marketing strategies, and a resource guide of addresses and contacts. The new edition is expanded by nearly 120 pages. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

Literature & Fiction

Silman-James Pr

This 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 organisations, 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.

Learn what you need to know to successfully write novels, nonfiction books, children's books, magazine and newspaper articles and columns, business copy, technical manuals, speeches, humor, scripts for movies, TV, radio, stage, interactive media, and more.

The Freelance Writer's Bible: Your Guide to a Profitable Writing Career Within One Year

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This revised, updated edition offers screenwriting basics, a workbook covering the writing process from ideas to revisions, correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts, a spec writing guide and a sales and marketing guide. There is a resource guide of addresses and contacts.

The screenwriter's bible: A complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your spec script

Screenwriting Center

Do you have a question about screenplay format or spec writing? Now you can have all of Dr. Format's prescriptions in one place. 
He addresses such issues as how to handle foreign languages, when can you "legally" use secondary headings (slug lines), how to streamline scenes for a "great read," what Hollywood readers look for in a script, and how to format e-mail conversations. 
Dr. Format contains every column Dave Trottier has written for Scr(i)pt Magazine, and each entry has been updated to currect standards. In all, Dave answers 107 common questions with concise answers and clear, illustrative examples that empower you to write with confidence. 
Dave teaches you how to direct the camera without using camera directions, and how to use formatting principles to develop your characters. He also shares specific tips on pitch letters and TV sitcom format. And he provides expert guidance on screenwriting issues not found anywhere else. 
Dr. Format goes beyond the rules and gives you practical applications that will expand your writing repertoire. According to Dave, "Understanding formatting and spec writing is a key to crafting a great screenplay." Let Dr. Format help you do just that.

Dr. Format Answers Your Questions

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Dave Trottier

The "Screenwriter's Bible" is one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold 150,000 copies in its ten-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover - six books in one! Features: How to Write a Screenplay - a concise course on screenwriting basics; Correct Format for Screenplays and Teleplays - a style guide to the latest in industry-accepted formats; Steps to a Stunning Script - a step-by-step guide to the screenwriting process from nascent idea through revisions; Writing Your Breakthrough Spec Script - the keys to a marketable script; How to Sell Your Script - marketing and sales strategies and information about today's marketplaces; and, Resources - lists of industry contacts and useful screenwriting tools and services. This new edition offers expanded coverage of dialogue writing and character development, the latest in proper screenplay format, a new section on jumpstarting your career, new advice on creating and delivering pitches, more new successful writing tips and pointers, new and revised writing exercises, updated film examples, and an expanded index.

The 20th anniversary edition of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 200,000 copies in its twenty-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover five books in one! A Screenwriting Primer that provides a concise course in screenwriting basics; A Screenwriting Workbook that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions; A Formatting Guide that thoroughly covers today s correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts; A Spec Writing Guide that demonstrates today s spec style through sample scenes and analysis, with an emphasis on grabbing the reader s interest in the first ten pages; A Sales and Marketing Guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Among this book s wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The sixth edition is chock-full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets.

The Screenwriter s Bible's 7th edition marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 340,000 copies in its 25-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover five books in one! <ul>
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A Screenwriting Primer that provides a concise course in screenwriting basics</li>
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A Screenwriting Workbook that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions</li>
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A Formatting Guide that thoroughly covers today's correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts</li>
<li>
A Spec Writing Guide that demonstrates today's spec style through sample scenes and analysis, with an emphasis on grabbing the reader's interest in the first ten pages</li>
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A Sales and Marketing Guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. </li>
</ul>Among this book's wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The 7th edition is chock-full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets.

Screenwriter's Bible, 7th Edition: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

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The Screenwriter's Bible; A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The Freelance Writer's Bible: Your Guide to a Profitable Writing Career Within One Year

The screenwriter's bible: A complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your spec script

Dr. Format Answers Your Questions

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

Screenwriter's Bible, 7th Edition: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script