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Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters

Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work

Tom Lazarus
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Pages
256
Year
2007
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

About

Every screenwriter needs to rewrite-more than once, probably many times-to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars. Tom Lazarus--author of "Stigmata", among other scripts--is a working screenwriter and professor at UCLA extension. In this book, he's distilled his own experience and that of other screenwriters into a system. SECRETS OF FILM REWRITING will teach writers how to:

-prioritize big scenes

-track transitions

-plot corrections

-add new information

-pass through for dialogue

-do an "on the nose" rewrite

Hugely valuable to first-time screenwriters and to grizzled veterans of Hollywood pitch wars alike, SECRETS OF SCREENPLAY REWRITING is larded with humor and attitude as well as information. Its anatomy of a screenplay rewrite breaks down the book's lessons into their practical application-a must for anyone looking for a break in the film business.

Related Subjects

  • Screenwriting
  • Film
  • Performing Arts
  • Adult Nonfiction

Reviews

"A book like this is important because rewriting is the single most important aspect of writing."
Scott Frank

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Tom LazarusAuthor