Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II [NOOK Book]

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A revised and expanded second volume of award-winning author and screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbook, with a special emphasis on writing love.

Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable to novel writing. You can jump-start your plot and bring your characters and ...
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Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II

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Overview

A revised and expanded second volume of award-winning author and screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbook, with a special emphasis on writing love.

Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable to novel writing. You can 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 tricks of great filmmakers.

With this workbook you'll learn how to use techniques of film writing such as:

- the High Concept Premise
- the Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Structure
- the Storyboard Grid
- the Index Card Method of Plotting

- as well as tricks of film pacing and suspense, character arc and drive, visual storytelling, creating setpieces, and building image systems - to structure and color your novel for maximum emotional impact, suspense, and pacing, no matter what genre you're writing in.

Contains all the general story structure lessons of STFA I and much more, but with special attention to key story elements, techniques and examples from romantic comedy, romantic suspense, and romantic adventure, including ten full story breakdowns.
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Editorial Reviews

J. A. Konrath
"Sokoloff's advice is spot-on, and her teaching style is direct and effective. A must-have book for authors and screenwriters."
Vicki Pettersson
"Sokoloff is a generous mentor with the gifted ability to address a storyteller's practical concerns while encouraging artistic integrity and every author's unique voice. Only three of my half dozen novels have been written with her unwitting guidance, but I can guarantee that with this book at my fingertips, all my future work- and my reading audience - will benefit from her advice."
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012779847
  • Publisher: Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Publication date: 7/18/2011
  • Series: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors , #2
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 200,894
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Alexandra Sokoloff is the author of the supernatural thrillers THE HARROWING, THE PRICE, THE UNSEEN, BOOK OF SHADOWS, and THE SPACE BETWEEN, the paranormal romance, THE SHIFTERS, and the upcoming paranormal trilogy TWIST OF FATE. She is also the author of SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS (AND SCREENWRITERS!), a workbook based on her internationally acclaimed blog and workshops. She is a Thriller Award winner and a Bram Stoker and Anthony Award nominee. The New York Times Book Review called her books "Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre."

As a screenwriter, Alex has sold original horror and thriller scripts and adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios, for producers such as Michael Bay, Laura Ziskin, David Heyman, and Neal Moritz. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and the board of Mystery Writers of America. She is also the founder of WriterAction.com, an online community and resource center of 2000+ professional screenwriters, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 27, 2011

    WOnderful craft toolkit

    While Alex Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors and Writing Love are amazing for identifying the structural elements of a story (and identifying holes in the plot before I write my way into a corner), I found the exercises on theme and premise wonderful for strengthening these aspects of my stories. The new material in Writing Love, specific to the key elements of love stories (great for the relationship subplot of my stories), was terrific! I highly recommend the workbook - and take one of Alex's classes if you have the opportunity. She's a fabulous teacher in person as well as on the page. Cathy P

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