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Explains how to deal with major changes and turn negative experiences into positive ones in order to take control in life.
Breaking In: Tales from the Screenwriting Trenches is a no-nonsense, boots-on-the-ground exploration of how writers REALLY go from emerging to professional in today’s highly saturated and competitive screenwriting space. With a focus on writers who have gotten representation and broken into the TV or feature film space after the critical 2008 WGA strike and financial market collapse, the reader will learn from tangible examples of how success was achieved via hard work and specific methodology. This book includes interviews from writers who wrote major studio releases (The Boy Next Door), staffed on television shows (American Crime, NCIS New Orleans, Sleepy Hollow), sold specs and televisi...
People's lives are made up of good and baddecisions, histories filled with triumph and pain, behaviors formed from alifetime of experiences -- your characters should be no different. But writingpsychologically complex characters requires an understanding of human behavior.Fortunately, you don't need a PhD in psychology to add complexity to yourscreenwriting. William Indick will help you add psychological depth to yourscript with insights from brilliant psychological theorists like Freud, Jung,and Adler. Get ready to create characters and conflict that will have youraudience begging for only one thing -- more.
Inside tips on how to craft pitches that seal the deal—no matter what industry you work in—and banish presentation anxiety forever From impromptu elevator pitches to full-board presentations, sales and marketing professionals face an “audience” daily―often with make-or-break consequences. As the person delivering the performance, you need to know you have a great script and are able to maintain composure throughout. To help you perfect both pitch and performance, there are no better coaches than clinical psychologist Peter Desberg and writer/producer Jeffrey Davis. With experience and insights from both the film industry and the corporate world, they understand the pitch process. I...
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Art of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insigh...
Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from industry insiders on topics such as breaking in; pitching; developing and nurturing business relationships; juggling multiple projects; and more. Writing for the Screen is an ideal companion to screenwriting and filmmaking classes, demystifying the industry and the role of the screenwriter with real-world narratives and little-known truths about the business. With insight from working professionals, you’ll be armed with the information you need to pursue your career as a screenwriter. Contains essa...
This book provides a CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) approach to Academy Award-winning screenplays, giving you the nitty gritty details of how an Academy Award script was created.
Offering a systematic approach for aspiring and working screenwriters, "My Story Can Beat Up Your Story" helps writers create professional, sellable stories that work for every genre. The book features examples from more than 70 movies.
Learn the effective and stress-free method for setting your goals—and achieving them—with this practical success guide. All too often, setting a goal can feel like setting ourselves up for failure. But with the right tools, setting and tackling goals can be easy. In Your Goal Guide, Debra Eckerling teaches readers how to approach goals—whether in their personal or professional lives—and achieve what they set out to do. Debra presents readers with her practical, proven system called the DEB Method: Determine Your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path. Through a combination of tools, tips, and writing exercises, Debra provides a process for making and setting goals that is stress-free and easy-to-manage. Debra Eckerling’s Your Goal Guide offers:To-the-point advice and user-friendly recommendationsEasy-to-read examples and case studiesAdaptable worksheets and numerous resources to bring you one step closer to goal achievement
This book presents a comprehensive guide to all the variables that can come into play when we come into contact with comedy.