The Guide for Every Screenwriter: From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed - Softcover

Calhoun, Geoffrey D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733989633 ISBN 13: 9781733989633

Publisher: We Fix Your Script, 2019

Synopsis

Screenwriting made simple. The Guide for Every Screenwriter is one of the most efficient instruction manuals on the craft. This book cuts past verbose exposition and gets straight to work, delivering sample-driven outlines and templates that anyone can follow. It is quick to apply to your work and serves as a side-by-side checklist for the writing process. This is the book for anyone looking to write a screenplay and for any professional needing a refresher.

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About the Author

Geoffrey D. Calhoun (Heroes from Heaven - S.O.S. - Lily) is the founder of WeFixYourScript.com where he and his team mentor filmmakers and support them with all aspects of screenwriting from concept to development, in-depth notes, polishing a script, one on one consultation, and even write for hire. Geoffrey is a multi-award-winning screenwriter and is sought out as a script consultant and a re-writer for various stages of development and production. He is the director of the Script Summit Screenplay Contest which is listed as one of the biggest Screenplay Competitions by The Script Lab.

​He is known for his fast-paced thrillers but has also won awards for comedies and dramas. He has received honors in several film festivals and contests including the Louis Mitchell Award for Excellence in Writing. In 2017 Geoffrey was listed as a Top 100 Indie Writer in the World. He believes everyone is a writer at heart and has dedicated himself to help others learn the craft. His seminars are designed to break down the mysteries of screenwriting by using easy to follow templates, outlines, and modern popular films as examples.

From the Back Cover

"One of the most efficient instruction manuals on the craft."
- Kelly Schwarze, Director - Indie Film Factory

From the Inside Flap

Like Strunk and White's Elements of Style, this book aims to give the reader and the writer a map to guide them. It takes the writer's hand and assists them with proper fundamentals and structure. I like this book. I like what it does if you use it properly. This miniature tome gives you the keys to the kingdom.
I've been involved with writing for over four decades. I have run over 30 Written Word Competitions over the last twenty years, read thousands of scripts, written over 300 episodes of Network Television and produced 5 films from my own screenplays (including the script for Behind The Gate with Academy Award Winner Joe Pesci). In short, I've seen it all. You could read one hundred books on screenwriting and still never get a tenth of the pure truth for the scribe that comes from cracking these pages open and then cracking open your mind to accept the truth of structure, process, intuition, and skill.
With this brilliant book, Calhoun has not only drawn a line, but he has also made a bulwark of design in language, style, and instruction that anyone can follow. The question is, "Will they?" I really hope they do because there are a million ways to go wrong but only a few ways to get it right. Getting it right begins with structure.
Screenwriting is one of the most difficult and rewarding crafts of all the crafts that have ever existed in the world. Think of all the trades and skills that have died over the last two thousand years. Now consider the fact that writers have outlasted them all. Why? Because the true heroics of a story is the ability to properly format, design, create, and launch your story successfully out into the universe.
-Del Weston

Edition details

• Publisher: We Fix Your Script
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1733989633
• ISBN 13: 9781733989633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132