Screenwriting for Neurotics
eBook - PDF

Screenwriting for Neurotics

A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish

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  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Screenwriting for Neurotics

A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish

About this book

Screenwriting for Neurotics is a quirky and accessible handbook for beginning screenwriters. Whether you are a student in a screenwriting class or just someone who wants to try their hand at writing for film or television, this handy guidebook makes the entire process simple and unintimidating. Scott Winfield Sublett, a veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher, walks you step by step from start to finish and helps you navigate potential and unforeseen difficulties along the way, offering handy tips and suggestions to keep you from becoming blocked or stalled.

Rather than throwing you into the writing process headfirst, Sublett guides you through the various decisions you need to make—about plot, character, structure, conflict—in the order you need to make them. He explains in straightforward terms the terminology and jargon, the theory and industry standards, and dispels common myths about screenwriting that can discourage or hold back a beginning writer.

Balancing theory and practice and offering valuable and insightful examples from recognizable and well-known classic and contemporary films, ranging from Casablanca to A Christmas Story to Clerks, Sublett provides the new writer with the necessary tools to successfully write a feature-length screenplay and offers a roadmap of where to go next. With an emphasis on helping a writer not just to begin, but also to finish a script, Screenwriting for Neurotics is the screenwriting book to help you actually write one.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Myths That Make You Crazy
  4. Chapter 1. The Idea
  5. Chapter 2. The Spine
  6. Chapter 3. Plot
  7. Chapter 4. Deeper into Plotting
  8. Chapter 5. The Scene
  9. Chapter 6. The Step Outline
  10. Chapter 7. Format
  11. Chapter 8. Description
  12. Chapter 9. Dialogue
  13. Chapter 10. Miscellany
  14. Chapter 11. The Rewrite
  15. Chapter 12. Selling Your Script
  16. Index