The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top WritersAs an aspiring screenwriter, you dream of one day seeing the fruits of your vision splashed across the big screen. Whether you believe great screenwriters are made or born, you'll be on the fast track to finding your Muse after tuning in to the secrets of fourteen of Tinseltown's top screenwriters, including Ron Bass (Rain Man), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), and Steven DeSouza (Die Hard). Author Karl Iglesias, Hollywood story analyst and development executive, personally interviewed these top contemporary scribes to learn their hints, tips, and advice for making it as a screenwriter. In The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, you'll learn how to make the greatest impact with a screenplay, using pacing, dialogue, and character development. You'll also follow each writer through a typical "day in the life," sharing eye-opening experiences that will amaze, amuse, and ultimately, inspire you. If you want an edge in an industry that demands it, sample from this smorgasbord of wisdom from masters of their craft. |
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User Review - Daniel.Estes - LibraryThingIf you're into movies, screenplays, and the oft-unglamorous process of writing good stories, then The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglesias is a lot of fun. The book is ... Read full review
Review: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, 10th Anniversary Edition: Insider Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
User Review - Hibido - GoodreadsLike any of these books on writing, much of it is common sense. But this one I read when I had absolutely no idea how to approach the concept of writing as a lifestyle. Helped me quite a bit. Read full review
Contents
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Learning the Business | 153 |
Getting an Agent | 167 |
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Understanding It Takes Talent | 122 |
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Page 26 - Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.' Goethe Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Page 193 - Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Page 163 - It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Page 12 - I believe, is that an author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His overpowering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized countries, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.
Page 28 - All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Page 6 - The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Page xiii - ... we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit...
Page 65 - Outlining . . . researching . . . talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
Page 53 - As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers |
| Author | Karl Iglesias |
| Publisher | Adams Media, 2001 |
| ISBN | 1440519501, 9781440519505 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film & Video / Screenwriting Performing Arts / General |
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