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Syd Field’s Screenplay

How to Sell Your Screenplay (in a nutshell)

May 25, 2012

I believe that most screenwriting books, seminars, blogs and other screenwriting resources don’t spend nearly enough time on teaching people how to market their screenplays. SellingYourScreenplay.com tries to bridge that gap. When I started out in the industry I didn’t know anyone. I was just a guy with a few ideas and a dream. With [...]

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Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing

August 19, 2009

This book was recommended to me by an actor who I met when I first moved to Los Angeles.  I was standing in line at a bank one day when I struck up a conversation with the guy in front of me.  He was an actor and writer who had been living in Hollywood for [...]

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Syd Field’s Screenplay

March 13, 2009

Nearly 30 years after it was written Syd Field’s Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script is still considered a must read for all aspiring screenwriters.  It was one of the first books recommended to me by a producer after I sent him a half-baked query letter and it [...]

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