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My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781932907933
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Published: Apr 1 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
My Story Can Beat Up Your Story! is the same powerful, easy-to-learn system that industry insiders have used to generate millions of dollars in script sales and ?assignments. In a clear, step-by-step fashion, this book is a fun, eye-opening, ?brain-expanding, and often irreverent guide to writing stories that sell. Covering everything from Heroes to Villains, from Theme to Plot Points, from cooking up good ideas to a business plan for smart writers, this book forever eliminates that horrible feeling every writer goes through -- staring at the blank page and wondering what comes next?
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