The Secrets Of Action Screenwriting [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Now fully revised! The Screenwriting Book recommended by and Oscar Winning Screenwriter and A Screenwriter with *Four* of the Top Twenty Box Office Movies of All Time!

The old version was 240 pages packed with tips and techniques - the new version is fully expanded with new chapters and is over 460 pages! Real techniques from a working professional screenwriter that you won't find anywhere else! Let the other books tell you about the 3 act structure! This book covers: How to write a plot twist, the four kinds of suspense (and how to create it), reversals to keep your description exciting, ten ways to invent new action scenes, secrets and lies, creating...
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Overview

Now fully revised! The Screenwriting Book recommended by and Oscar Winning Screenwriter and A Screenwriter with *Four* of the Top Twenty Box Office Movies of All Time!

The old version was 240 pages packed with tips and techniques - the new version is fully expanded with new chapters and is over 460 pages! Real techniques from a working professional screenwriter that you won't find anywhere else! Let the other books tell you about the 3 act structure! This book covers: How to write a plot twist, the four kinds of suspense (and how to create it), reversals to keep your description exciting, ten ways to invent new action scenes, secrets and lies, creating the ultimate villain, five kinds of love interests, creating effective violence, is sex necessary?, theme, using magnification to create kick ass stories, weapons for weirdos, plans for world destruction and/or domination, four ways to explode cliches, twelve steps to a more focused script, *every* type of hero, emotional action scenes, your script's DNA, pre-story goal and the connection to story goal, pacing, *how* to plot, giving them something extra, and more.... Plus a complete analysis of the classic DIE HARD!

Though this book focuses on the Action and Thriller genres, the information can be used in any genre. This is the book professional screenwriters recommend!

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013851580
  • Publisher: First Strike Productions
  • Publication date: 12/17/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 178,145
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

"William C. Martell is the Robert Towne of made for cable movies," (Washington Post reviewer) David Nuttycombe.

How many writers of screenwriting books make their living actually writing and selling screenplays?

William C. Martell has written nineteen produced films, including three HBO World Premieres, two Showtime Originals, two MOWs for USA Network, and a whole bunch of CineMax Originals (which is what happens when an HBO movie goes really, really wrong). In 2009 he wrote the big budget studio remake of a low budget 1980s theatrical horror movie - which is still inching toward production, and in his 20 year career as a professional screenwriter has done everything from adapting a New York Times Bestseller to turning down the job adapting ANGELS & DEMONS.

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    i would have loved to have given this book a full 5 stars but th

    i would have loved to have given this book a full 5 stars but the lack of a content table prevent me from doing so. I mean how can you have a 500+ page book and no content table to jump to individual chapter??

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