Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work

Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work
by Tom Lazarus

Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work
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Author: Tom Lazarus
Foreword: Scott Frank
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-21
ISBN: 0312338317
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Book Reviews of Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work

Book Review: Book could have a used a few rewrites itself...
Summary: 3 Stars

I was interested in finding a great tome about rewriting, as the majority of books out there just focus on cranking out that first draft. This book really disappointed me. There are lots of anecdotal stories about the Biz, but precious few kernels of nuts-and-bolts rewriting advice. Almost 140 pages are spent on a "script" (about the Abominable Snowman!) that is presented three times to show the evolution of a rewrite; however the quality of the script (as well as the author's overly succinct rewrite notes on why a change was made) feels very amateurish. The search for a great rewriting book goes on...

Summary of Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters: Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work

Every screenwriter needs to rewrite-more than once, probably many times-to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars.? Tom Lazarus--author of "Stigmata", among other scripts--is a working screenwriter and professor at UCLA extension.? In this book, he's distilled his own experience and that of other screenwriters into a system.? SECRETS OF FILM REWRITING will teach writers how to:
--prioritize big scenes
--track transitions
--plot corrections
--add new information
--pass through for dialogue
--do an "on the nose" rewrite?
Hugely valuable to first-time screenwriters and to grizzled veterans of Hollywood pitch wars alike, SECRETS OF SCREENPLAY REWRITING is larded with humor and attitude as well as information. Its anatomy of a screenplay rewrite breaks down the book's lessons into their practical application-a must for anyone looking for a break in the film business.
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