Secrets of Film Writing

A new paradigm for film and television writing. Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that. The Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secrets—the tips, short cuts, tricks and insider advice th [...]
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A new paradigm for film and television writing. Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that. The Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secrets—the tips, short cuts, tricks and insider advice that will get your story down on paper, maximize your idea and seduce your readers. Do you know why actors pick scripts out of a stack? Why montage sequences don't work? Why the traditional three-act structure is obsolete? Lazarus lifts the veil with hundreds of secrets like these. Lazarus' insights and techniques will smooth and improve any screenwriter's process and make any script more readable and ultimately more salable. The Secrets of Film Writing takes you behind the scenes of feature and television writing and demystifies, once and for all, the Hollywood System. Author Biography: Tom Lazarus has had five feature films made from his original screenplays, including the #1 movie Stigmata; six movies of the week; and has written over thirty hours of network drama. He is also an award-winning educational filmmaker. He has taught screenwriting for ten years as a UCLA extension instructor and currently continues to write screenplays while writing and directing independent features.