How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: the inner movie method

by Viki King

Paperback, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

808/.066791

Collection

Publication

Perennial Library (1988), Paperback, 192 pages

Description

The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script. Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides the would-be screenwriter through the writing of a movie. It answers such questions as: How to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet How to tell if your idea is really a movie How to move from what you want to say saying it How to stop getting ready and start Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. It also addresses such issues as: How to pay the rent while paying your dues What to say to your spouse when you can't come to bed How to keep going when you think you can't For accomplished screenwriters honing their craft, as well as those who never before brought their ideas to paper, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is an indispensable guide. And Viki King's upbeat, friendly style is like having a first-rate writing partner every step of the way.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member andreablythe
This is a helpful book for beginning screenwriters. It will help force you to get through that first shitty attempt at a screenplay.

Don't hold too many hopes for it being the best script ever written though. A really great script is going to take more than twenty-one days to write. Period.
LibraryThing member dasmith635
This book is how I got into writing. It changed my life!

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Physical description

viii, 192 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

0060551127 / 9780060551124

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