Big Fat Paycheck - Softcover

Lawrence, Colton

3.33

12 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553376004 ISBN 13: 9780553376005

Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers, 2004

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If you don’t have family connections and don’t want to depend on luck alone, the best shot you have at hitting the screenwriting jackpot is to write a kick-butt screenplay. Big Fat Paycheck will show readers how simple it is to write a script. Readers, however, will have to supply the kick-butt.

Filled with quirky black-and-white illustrations and accessible, easy-to-understand guidance, author Colton Lawrence gives readers the rules on scriptwriting and how to sell their screenplay to Hollywood. Topics include characterization, dialogue, structure, the writing and rewriting process, and getting a screenplay read by a Big Fancy Hollywood Script Reader.

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About the Author:

Colton Lawrence began writing at the age of 19 and became the youngest member playwright at the Group Repertory Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. He’s currently developing a TV show based on his Camy Baker books.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7 Up–Admitting that he is now a bit too long of tooth to profit from his own advice, Lawrence encourages young people to seek their fortunes in that mythical place where youth itself is the most prized commodity: Hollywood. Writing from an "if I only knew then what I know now" perspective, he neatly lays out the essentials of writing and selling a "kick-butt" screenplay, artfully dangling the shining carrot of major booty that accompanies screenwriting success as he does so. Once he has established the glitzy dream of Tinseltown glory, the author is careful to temper the message with reality checks about the necessity of endless rewriting and peer reviewing, and stresses attention to critical screenplay formatting conventions. He manages to carry off this sobering portion of craftsmanship tips with just enough hopeful momentum to propel a wunderkind or two over the most daunting hump of all in the process: actually getting a screenplay read and sold. Lawrence is refreshingly candid about the extreme difficulty of breaking into the business, but he equips readers with an insider's toolkit of resources that they can use to help pry their way in. In the end, he reminds aspirants that the movies are pure illusion and that, to be successful, new screenwriters must also create an illusion–that they are, definitively, "the next big thing." A lively, compelling, and concisely concrete guide for creative kids with big-screen dreams.–Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
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