Stealing Hollywood: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your Best Book
Alexandra Sokoloff
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· 3 ratings · 405 pages · Published: 07 Aug 2015
Are you finally committed to writing that novel or screenplay, but have no idea how to get started? Or are you a published author, but know you need some plotting help to move your books and career up to that next level?
You CAN write better books and scripts—by learning from the movies. Screenwriting is based on a simple (and powerful) structure that you already know from watching so many movies and television shows in your lifetime. And it's a structure that your reader or audience unconsciously expects, and that is crucial for you to deliver.
In this workbook, award-winning author/screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff shows you how to jump-start your plot and bring your characters and scenes vibrantly alive on the page by watching your favorite movies and learning from the storytelling structure and tricks of great filmmakers:
• The High Concept Premise
• The Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Structure
• The Storyboard Grid
• The Index Card Method of Plotting
• The Setpiece Scene
• Techniques of film pacing and suspense, character arc and drive, visual storytelling, and building image systems.
Based on the internationally acclaimed Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workshops and blog, this new e book edition uses an enhanced format and layout, incorporates all the basic information from the first Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbook and doubles the material, including ten full story breakdowns.
Also available in PRINT --- the textbook-quality edition is 8 x 10 inches and lies open flat for easy highlighting and note-taking.