Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work

By Tom Lazarus

Every screenwriter needs to rewrite--more than once, probably many times--to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars. Tom Lazarus--author of "Stigmata," among other scripts--is a working screenwriter and professor at UCLA extension. In this book, he's distilled his own experience and that of other screenwriters into a system. SECRETS OF FILM REWRITING will teach writers how to: --prioritize big scenes--track transitions--plot corrections--add new information--pass through for dialogue--do an "on the nose" rewrite Hugely valuable to first-time screenwriters and to grizzled veterans of Hollywood pitch wars alike, SECRETS OF SCREENPLAY REWRITING is larded with humor and attitude as well as information. Its anatomy of a screenplay rewrite breaks down the book's lessons into their practical application--a must for anyone looking for a break in the film business.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312338317
• ISBN13: 9780312338312
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"