Top Secrets: Screenwriting
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0943728509 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Offers the professional and novice writer in-depth advice from top screen writers.
What secrets? bookloversfriend First of all, this book contains no secrets about screenwriting.Second, it contains no information on how to write screenplays.The book contains biographical summaries of how a number of screenwriters broke into screenwriting (told in narrative and in interview form), bits and pieces about . "A practical guide for would-be screenwriters" according to A Customer. Jurgen Wolff and Kerry Cox have put together another useful guide for aspiring writers. There is nothing quite as practical as the voice of experience, and Mr. Wolff generously shares the insights he has gleaned from a long and successful career. He infuses the potentially dull technical as. An excellent source. "An excellent source of insider insights and know-how, this volume will interest movie fanatics and screenwriter wannabes." -- ALA BOOKLIST
-- Midwest Book Review. Wilson & Brent Maddock (Short Circuit); David Zucker (Naked Gun). Featured writers include Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves); Jim Cash (Top Gun); Mary Agnes Donoghue (Paradise); Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune); William Kelley (Witness); Todd W. Top Secrets: Screenwriting is the ideal reference work on writing for the highly competitive, and often highly lucrative, screenwriting market. Offering a blend of biographies and interviews with successful screenwriters, and actual script samples, the aspiring screenwriter can get a true feeling for what is involved and what the demands are in his or her chosen profession. Langen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost); Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society); S. S