20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay: A Thorough Primer for Screenwriters

by Rick Reichman

Overview

20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay is a practical, concrete, primer that teaches beginning through advanced screenwriters the skills necessary to write the most popular types of screenplays being produced in Hollywood today. It also includes a short, sample screenplay designed to give readers a visual of how a screenplay looks when expertly formatted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971534476
Publisher:	Central Avenue Press
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rick Reichman received an MFA in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a winner of America's Best Screenwriting Competition. His students have sold scripts to Fox, Warner Brothers, HBO, and Showtime, as well as to the television series' Roseanne, Home Improvement, The Nanny, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Family Law.