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Title: How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make by Denny Martin Flinn ISBN: 1-58065-015-5 Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Save your money... BUY THIS BOOK!
Comment: I've purchased dozens of screenwriting books over the last few years, and I read them all voraciously. I always seemed to come away feeling somewhat empty and lost (with the exception of anything written by William Froug.) This book, however, is worth its weight in gold. Forget all that formula stuff and write from the heart, but keep what you learn from this book close to your heart as you slave away on your masterpiece. Once you have a solid foundation of rules to follow that will at least increase your odds of not being dismissed by the pro reader for some silly technical mistake, you are truly free to tell your story in the best way... YOUR WAY. I would have saved hundreds of dollars on books if I had read this one first.
Rating: 5
Summary: Covering the bases on Screenplay
Comment: Flinn knows his stuff. This is an exhaustive catalogue, if you will, of all danger signs and bear traps posted along the path of writing in the illusive art of screenplay. Presented in a slight tongue-in-cheek tone, Flinn is a able to reduce this complicated world into a fun-to-read and easy to understand format. By referencing well known works which have already made it to the big screen, this book makes those, sometimes vague, concepts all the more relevant and meaningful--a problem I find with many of these "how to write screenplay" books. Besides, Flinn has a writing credit on a movie already (Star Trek 6), something I find many of the authors to these books are lacking. It makes this read all the more authoritative.
Rating: 5
Summary: The how-not-to book to measure all the other how-to's by
Comment: Until I read this book, I wasn't even sure I knew what I was doing when I wrote screenplays. This book made me realize just exactly what I was doing right and wrong, so my confidence in my own writing sky-rocketed! I would suggest reading The Screenwriter's Bible first, then this book. In addition, I suggest reading any script written by James Cameron and John Hughes. Flinn gives you a thorough understanding of all the "do's" and "don'ts" which no one else quite does. It's very helpful to know what not to do and what to do instead.
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Title: The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier ISBN: 1879505444 Publisher: Silman-James Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger ISBN: 0805011714 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader : Writing the Screenplay the Reader Will Recommend by Jennifer Lerch ISBN: 0684856409 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 13 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers by Karl Iglesias, Lew Hunter ISBN: 1580625509 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How to Write a Selling Screenplay by Christopher Keane ISBN: 0767900715 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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