David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible, 6th Edition: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script (Expanded & Updated)

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The 20th anniversary edition of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 200,000 copies in its twenty-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover five books in one!

A Screenwriting Primer that provides a concise course in screenwriting basics;

A Screenwriting Workbook that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions;

A Formatting Guide that thoroughly covers today s correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts;

A Spec Writing Guide that demonstrates today s spec style through sample scenes and analysis, with an emphasis on grabbing the reader s interest in the first ten pages;

A Sales and Marketing Guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan.

Among this book s wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The sixth edition is chock-full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets.
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  • Омар Жолдубаевhas quoted6 years ago
    You may ask, Can the Catalyst also be the Big Event? Sure. Ghost and Regarding Henry are two examples, as is Juno (the pregnancy). Keep in mind that I am presenting guidelines in this book, not hard-and-fast rules.
  • Омар Жолдубаевhas quoted6 years ago
    Here’s the principle: When a story begins, life is in balance. Yes, your hero may have a problem, but it’s a problem he’s always had—his status quo. Then the Catalyst kicks things out of balance and gives the central character a new problem, need, goal, desire, or mission. The central character spends the rest of the movie trying to get things back into balance.
  • Омар Жолдубаевhas quoted6 years ago
    Somewhere in the first 10 or 15 pages of your script (or earlier), something should happen to give your central character a goal, a desire, a mission, a need, or a problem.

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