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How to Write a Selling Screenplay | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Keane
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 105624
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0767900715
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.23
EAN: 9780767900713
ASIN: 0767900715
Publication Date: April 13, 1998
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Condition: EX-Library copy with highlighting/underlining/notes in text and very heavy shelf and edgewear, creasing to covers, po name, dog eared pages, and soiling to page edges, reading creases to spine, still very readable.We are a Christian and family owned bookstore. A portion of all proceeds help support Christian missions. Thank you for helping spread the gospel.
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Product Description
Christopher Keane has spent 20 years in the business, learning the truths--and the tricks--of writing a selling screenplay. In How to Write a Selling Screenplay, he takes writers through the entire process, from developing a story to finding the best agent. Using an annotated version of an often-optioned screenplay of his own, and citing examples from movies ranging from Casablanca and Lethal Weapon to Sling Blade and The English Patient, he discusses how to create three-dimensional characters, find a compelling story, build an airtight plot structure, fine-tune dialogue, and much more. Keane's tips on the difference between writing for film and television, as well as his advice on dealing with Hollywood movers and shakers, make this an essential companion for people writing their first--or their fortieth--screenplay.
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Now I get it! November 16, 2008
Sp Magro (Australia)
Great book & well worth the money. Christopher not only explains how, but why. I now see movies in a different light which helps in understanding why certain movies appeal to the masses and most importantly, why others don't. If you have a story in your head, this book will explain how to coax it out for all to enjoy. It's been a tremendous help in guiding my stories from imagination to page.
 Start Here August 30, 2008
E. S. (MD)
The name Keane might not jump out at you as "major Hollywood screenwriter" but after reading over the first few sections of this book it is obvious that he knows what he is writing about. Honest and straight forward, this book takes you from stage one (you have an idea) all the way through the proper way to write your script to how to sell it (stubborness is the key!). The best part is that the author has one of his complete screenplays at the end of the book. It comes with annotations and is a big help for a visual learner like myself.
Fantastic Book! April 15, 2008
Eugenia Renskoff (New York, New York)
I highly recommend this book. It has helped write the Different Flags screenplay. Eugenia RenskoffDifferent Flags
Excellent guide for screenplay writing March 5, 2008
Daniel Hsu
So far the best and complete guide for screenplay that I've read. Very useful for those who wants to start writing a screenplay. I recommend it.
Titel should read "How To Sell a Written Screenplay." December 8, 2007
N. Fronczak (MI, USA)
This books is very well written and has loads of information for the beginning screen writer such as myself. The author takes a chronological step by step approach as to how to get started and the proper format for a screenplay. The only thing I'm sort of ad odds with is that the author doesn't say much as to how in the world you get an agent to just read your script, let alone representing you. He sort of glosses over that problem and a real problem it is. I personally have been sending out query letters since February of this year and have received only "polite" rejection form letters or no responses at all. I've even sent out "follow up" queries and still no responses. I assume that agents need postage stamps, they've obviously kept the ones that I've included for return postage, or that in order to get ANYTHING read and actually produced, you have to know someone personally in the business. Don't quit your day jobs and think that you're going to sell a story. It's next impossible, as I've unfortunately realized. You would assume that it's not really that difficult given all the "schlock" that IS produced. Case in point: an independent film maker made a film this last year about zombies attacking a small town and it cost him about $30,000 to make. He released it and it made over $35,000,000 in one weekend! Out grossing the three main stream releases put together! Go figure. Never the less, this book is a good fundamental but just don't depend on it too much as gospel. Keep writing, keep looking for an agent but also keep/find a regular job in the meantime.
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