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The Pocket Screenwriting Guide: 120 Tips for Getting to FADE OUT

At a Glance

  • A complete guide to the craft of screenwriting
  • Guides you through classic Hollywood storytelling with 120 succinct tips, mirroring the standard page length for a 2-hour film
  • An invaluable resource for the entire screenwriting process, from outline to final draft

Like having a creative guru and all the bestselling writing books with you while you type, The Pocket Screenwriting Guide leads you through classic Hollywood storytelling with 120 succinct tips – mirroring the standard page length for a 2-hour film.

The Pocket Screenwriting Guide also mixes in mythology and a breakdown of story into smaller, self-contained units of Acts, Sequences, and Pivotal Moments that serve the screenplay as a whole. It clarifies each step, with an "Also Known As" section, listing some of the more popular names given to that particular step by top storytelling experts.

An invaluable resource for building an outline or treatment, The Pocket Screenwriting Guide assists you in writing the rough draft, and serves as a reference during the writing and rewriting process to help tighten and focus subsequent drafts.

Never start a screenplay alone again. Keep The Pocket Screenwriting Guide close at hand every time you write a script.

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Meet the Author: Anthony Grieco

Anthony Grieco is a Story Specialist at The Writers Store, an instructor at Writers University and an emerging Hollywood screenwriter and script consultant. He has a bachelor's degree in Film and English from the University of Toronto and has studied at Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York. Anthony has completed nine feature film scripts, with two optioned and one recently sold.

Meet the Author: Mario O. Moreno

Mario Moreno is a Story Specialist and Instructor for The Writers Store by day, and a budding screenwriter by night (also on his lunch hour).

He earned a bachelor's degree in Film from Miami International University, where he won an Outstanding Filmmaker Award for his thesis "The Sellout." Mario has written nearly 20 feature film scripts and has pitched executives at Paramount, Warner Brothers, Fox, Disney, Universal and Sony.
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