My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch
- ISBN-10
- 1932907939
- ISBN-13
- 9781932907933
- Category
- Motion picture authorship
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Author
- Jeffrey Alan Schechter
Description
More than 20 years ago, Jeffrey Alan Schechter arrived in Hollywood with the dream of making it as a screenwriter. His dedication — not just to writing, but to learning what makes a good story — paid off and Jeff became a million-dollar screenwriter, story doctor, and rewrite artist. My Story Can Beat Up Your Story is the same powerful, easy-to-learn system that industry insiders have used to generate millions of dollars in script sales and assignments. In a clear, step-by-step fashion, this book is a fun, eye-opening, brain-expanding, and often irreverent guide to writing stories that sell. Covering everything from Heroes to Villains, from Theme to Plot Points, from cooking up good ideas to a business plan for smart writers, this book forever eliminates that horrible feeling every writer goes through — staring at the blank page and wondering "what comes next?"
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