Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers by Ellis, Sherry

Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers

An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2,...
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Author: Sherry Ellis
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Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers by Ellis, Sherry

Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers

CHF 27.21

Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers

CHF 27.21
Author: Sherry Ellis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, Lost, True Blood, The Shield, and many other hit films and television shows.

Now Write Screenwriting-the latest addition to the Now Write writing guide series-brings together the acclaimed screenwriters of films like the Oscar-winning Raging Bull, Oscar- nominated Ali, era-defining blockbuster Terminator 2, musical classic Fame, hit series Lost True Blood and The Shield, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, Chicken Run, Reversal of Fortune, Before Sunrise, Mystic Pizza, Indecent Proposal, and many more, to teach the art of the story.

*Learn about why it is sometimes best to write what you don't know from Christina Kim ('Lost')

*Find out how Stephen Rivele (Ali, Nixon) reduces his screenplay ideas down to their most basic elements, and uses that as a writing guide

*Learn why you should focus on your character, not your plot, when digging yourself out of a plot home from Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day)

*Take tips from Karey Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run, The Spiderwick Chronicles) on how to give an inanimate object intense emotional significance

*Let Kim Krizan (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset) teach you how to stop your internal critic dead in his tracks

This lively and easy-to-read guide will motivate both aspiring and experienced screenwriters. No other screenwriting book offers advice and exercises from this many writers of successful, iconic films.

Author: Sherry Ellis, Laurie Lamson
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
Published: 01/06/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.63h x 5.35w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781585428519
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 37

About the Author
Sherry Ellis is the editor of NOW WRITE! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers and NOW WRITE! NONFICTION, as well as a personal writing coach. Her author interviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Glimmer Train, and AGNI, as well as other literary and arts magazines. She lives in Massachusetts.

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