The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
by Karl Iglesias

The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
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Author: Karl Iglesias
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2001-09-30
ISBN: 1580625509
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Adams Media Corp.

Summary of The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

This book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it's actually like to be one. An inspiration to all would-be screenwriters, this book is about living the screenwriter's life -- the habits, writing environments, creative processes, daily passions, and obsessions.

In The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, author Karl Iglesias has interviewed 14 top contemporary Hollywood screenwriters who offer their experience, insight, and advice to aspiring screenwriters everywhere:


Aspiring screenwriters don't need another book on how to write a screenplay, says Karl Iglesias. What they need is a book on how to be a screenwriter. Voilą: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, featuring interviews with 14 screenwriters, arranged by subject. The result reads like a panel discussion, touching on such subjects as collaboration, schmoozing, discipline, Hollywood, and story pitching. The dream of winning a Hollywood jackpot has lured everyone and his gardener into the screenwriting game. Still, despite the unencouraging odds, "all you need to do is write a good script," says Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls). Some of the book's best advice concerns one of the screenwriter's most formidable hurdles: getting a screenplay read. Submit it to film festivals and screenwriting competitions, or follow Tom Schulman's (Dead Poet's Society) advice and hire an entertainment attorney. After all, "most of them know a lot of agents." --Jane Steinberg

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