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The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
ISBN: 9781879505841 | 1879505843
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: SILMAN-JAMES PRESS
Pub. Date: 8/20/2005
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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 the working screenwriter need under one cover - six books in one! 'How to Write a Screenplay.' 'Correct Formats for Screenplays and Teleplays.' 'Steps to a Stunning Script.' 'Writing Your Breakthrough Spec Script.' 'How to Sell Your Script.' 'Resources.'
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| How to Write a Screenplay-A Primer | |
| How stories work | p. 3 |
| Situation, conflict, and resolution-the flow of the story | p. 10 |
| The low-down on high concept | p. 23 |
| Story-layering, plot, and genre | p. 30 |
| Ten keys to creating captivating characters | p. 43 |
| Theme | p. 59 |
| Dialogue, subtext, and exposition | p. 62 |
| How to make a scene | p. 68 | ... MORE
| Suspense, comedy, and television | p. 73 |
| 7 Steps to a Stunning Script-A Workbook | |
| About this workbook | p. 83 |
| Summon your Muse | p. 84 |
| Dream up your movie idea | p. 87 |
| Develop your core story | p. 92 |
| Create your movie people | p. 96 |
| Step-out your story | p. 99 |
| Write your first draft | p. 101 |
| Make the necessary revisions | p. 102 |
| Proper Formatting Technique-A Style Guide | |
| How to use this guide to craft a compelling and professional screenplay | p. 113 |
| Sample script | p. 118 |
| Formatting in a nutshell | p. 122 |
| Overall screenplay appearance | p. 123 |
| Headings (slug lines) | p. 129 |
| Narrative description | p. 146 |
| Dialogue | p. 166 |
| How to format TV scripts | p. 186 |
| Glossary | p. 194 |
| Formatting index | p. 195 |
| Writing & Revising Your Breakthrough Script-A Script Consultant's View | |
| The spec script-your key to breaking in | p. 201 |
| Key principles and exercises in revising scenes | p. 202 |
| When to break formatting rules | p. 228 |
| The first ten pages | p. 233 |
| How to Sell Your Script-A Marketing Plan | |
| Five steps to selling your work | p. 257 |
| Protect your work | p. 258 |
| Prepare your script for market | p. 262 |
| Assemble your selling tools | p. 268 |
| Create your strategic marketing plan | p. 272 |
| Implement your plan | p. 294 |
| How to find an agent | p. 294 |
| Crafting the query | p. 299 |
| How to pitch without striking out | p. 315 |
| Synopses, treatments, and outlines | p. 325 |
| How to sell your script without an agent | p. 334 |
| Television and Hollywood's back door | p. 351 |
| How to break into Hollywood when you live in Peoria | p. 358 |
| A personal challenge | p. 359 |
| Resources and General Index | |
| Resources | p. 363 |
| General Index | p. 374 |
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