The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting: 3rd Edition

Overview

Now updated and revised...includes a CD-ROM!

Here is an updated and revised edition of the practical and popular guide to realizing the dream of succeeding as a screenwriter. Insider Skip Press gives novice screenwriters a cook's tour of the industry, then leads them through the process of picking a winning idea, structuring and writing a screenplay, and packaging the final script for sale.

* Includes a CD-ROM packed with sample screenplays, Hollywood contact information, screenwriting software demos, and more
* Chapters on writing for television, including a sample TV script segment

* A new chapter on sources for screenplays and movies, including how Asian films are acquired and adapted

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Author Information

Bio of Skip Press

An award-winning author, screenwriter, teacher, playwright, and former Editor of Entertainment Monthly (Los Angeles), Skip Press has written -- and sold -- everything from radio and television scripts to feature films, plays, CD-ROMs, and a variety of articles and bestselling books, both fiction and non-fiction. His first script sale was in 1978, to a nationally syndicated radio series (Alien Worlds); later, he branched out into children's television (Zoobilee Zoo series, 1984; Algo's Factory series, currently on UPN), and CD-ROMs (Aladdin, 1995). He has also sold two feature film scripts (one written with Peter Flynn, another with Michael Sean Conley), and two plays which have been produced (All The Difference and Curtain/Time). Another of his plays, Fourth World was a finalist in several national playwriting competitions, and Walking After Midnight has been optioned for a feature film. Skip has written almost two dozen books, including Writers Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors and Screenwriting Agents, 1999-2000 (Prima Publishing) and How To Write What You Want & Sell What You Write (Career Press), which is now available in electronic format. How To Write What You Want & Sell What You Write was a finalist for Best Nonfiction Ebook for 2000 in the first annual Eppie Awards.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Penguin

Filesize

3.10 MB

Number of Pages

400

eBook ISBN

9781436243100