Workshop Approach Emphasizes Progress over Procrastination

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	• How to Write a Selling Screenplay Christopher Keane Broadway, 1998 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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The best screenwriting guide I have read.

I have found Keane's book to be more helpful than Robert McKee's "Story" and Syd Field's "Screenplay" when starting out. Keane is very clear about the steps necessary to write a consistent, engaging script. At the same time, Keane encourages the reader throughout the long and daunting process of writing and revising. I really enjoyed his list of recommended viewing and the way he refers back to these films throughout the book. I used Keane's guide as a reference for writing my first feature film, which subsequently went into production. I also recommend his book to all my students at the film program I run at Harvard University.

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An Essential For Any Screenwriter

Keane's book is a essential for any screenwriter's bookshelf. Not only does it break down the A-Z essential elements of popular screenwriting, but it tackles the difficult subject of how to break into the business. You'd have to buy two or three books by most of the other popular screenwriting gurus to get the gamut of information that Keane packs into this medium size volume. His choice of films to reference as examples of different screenwriting techiniques is excellent and his humour keeps the fledgling writer from being discouraged. Keans writes in optimistic prose that makes you feel your goal is attainable. I read this book before starting my last screenplay and have since moved to Hollywood and had my work open quite a few doors. This is a coherant, reader-friendly how-to book that covers all the bases and is head and shoulders above the rest of its ilk.

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Workshop Approach Emphasizes Progress over Procrastination

In a world littered with screenwriting books that either overpromise (write a movie in 7days!) or over analyze, turning movies into lists of unrelated statistics, Chris Keane's will give you the tools you need to turn your writing dreams into reality. He doesn't shy away from the hard facts of the writing life, but gives the beginning (and advanced) writer perspective to keep going. His workshop method allows you to see your story in manageable terms. It cures the anxiety of the beginning writer, because it spells out the entire process of taking an idea and executing it. The script I wrote using this method has opened doors for me in Hollywood that I never would have thought I'd even be knocking on three years ago. I continually go back to this book when inspiration lags or I'm feeling stuck.

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How to write a selling screenplay

If you've never wrote a screenplay, don't go any further till you've bought this book. This book is essential to making the movie dreams in your head a written reality on the page. Owning this book is like having a clear, witty, and inspiring teacher at your elbow through each step of the process. From what to do when the idea pops in your head, to how to get an agent, this book is there for the journey. I don't write without it.

Form as Function

Chris Keane manages to inspire the writer in all of us, to duel with the Hollywood dream merchants, using form as function to materialize the imagination into a salable script...

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