The Hollywood Approach: Script Your Life Like a Hit Movie and Live Your Wildest Dream

by Kristina Paider

Overview

Script your deepest desires, awaken your potential, and love the show you call life.

As a story strategist and screenwriter, Kristina Paider has analyzed tens of thousands of movie scenes, asking, "How does this character and this action legitimately move the plot forward?" In The Hollywood Approach, she takes the same principles used to create heroes and heroines for the big screen, and shows you how to apply them to real life to live your next wildest dream.

In this gutsy guide, you will learn how to channel all your resources-your character DNA, your strengths and flaws, your allies, mentors, and even your antagonists-to achieve great things.

Practical, soulful, and inspired, The Hollywood Approach will show you how to level up in life, say yes to yourself, and perform feats of badassery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989603550
Publisher:	Page Two Books
Publication date:	01/08/2021
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

A screenwriter and story strategist, Kristina Paider has moved from newsrooms to boardrooms to Hollywood writers' rooms as a sought-after collaborator on high-performance teams in thirty-four countries. She has practiced The Hollywood Approach for two decades, helping people and companies live their best story.

www.KristinaPaider.com

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Call to Adventure

1 Be Your Own Hero

2 Your First Big Yes

3 Your Narrative Forensics

4 Character DNA Part I: Strengths and Assets

5 Character DNA Part II: Amnesia and Superpowers

6 Character DNA Part III: Flawesomeness

7 Allies: The Force Multiplier

8 Drink Your Antagonists' Tears

9 Mentors and Models

10 Annnnnd . . . Action

11 Plot Twists and the Dark Night of the Soul

12 The Supreme Ordeal

13 Love Conquers All

14 Bulletproofing

Conclusion: Your Next Call

Acknowledgments

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