Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood
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Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood

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Timeless advice

I know this a bit outdated but it really isn't ~ a good script or screenplay is a good one regardless of the era. I truly got it to get a better handle on what the readers primary goals. I do this type of work but always look for inspiration to keep me moving in the right direction. I am continually attempting to fine tune my craft. This book offered wonderful real life suggestions. I can now add what I learned here to my repertoire propelling me to be one of the better readers around.

F**K

Excellent.

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D**Y

helpful book

I wanted to see how you change a book into a screenplay and this book has been helpful. I did not realize how different a screenplay was from writing a novel.

C**Y

Promoting Your Screenplay

Syd Field's advice, as always, is excellent.I certainly intend to follow his suggestions, when the time arrives to promote my screenplay. All of his textbooks are intensely readable, which says alot for his writing skills. The dishes pile up, the bed doesn't get made, because I can't put the damn thing down. Nough said?

E**O

This should have been called something like, "The Hollywood working model for screenwriters" by Syd Field

Don't get me wrong, this was a hell of a lot of fun reading it, and everything that's in there is actually true. But what it teaches you, is that Hollywood is really just a business and there's no surefire way of selling your screenplay.If you want a proper guide on how to sell something, buy Robert W. Bly's book "The Copywriting Handbook".If you want to know more about the organizational model of Hollywood, buy Syd Field's book. Just don't expect it to teach you how to actually sell the damned thing.In the end, it really is the screenplay that sells itself, based on supply and demand. It's a market, and you as a writer are nowadays vastly outnumbered.

S**Y

Five Stars

He is just the best - very insightful and it's a great support - the Master's voice!

A**N

Interesting, but no marketing lessons here

We bought this for our daughter when she was interested in drama and participating (very successfully) in her high school dramatic forensics team. As to any useful information about how to market a play, however, well, there wasn't any to speak of. She had fun reading it, but didn't learn anything of note.

C**Y

Helpful if your serious about screenwriting

This is a concise straight forward guide to everything from packaging your screenplay to getting and dealing with Agents. I have read so many books on this subject, but this one was well worth it.

S**A

nice product

nice product

A**R

Five Stars

All is great. Thank you

J**B

Five Stars

Perfect!

P**E

Great book

As a comedy genius I find writing funny films very very easy. Anybody who has ever read one of my films love my dialogue and my natural comic ability, however apart from being a floating comma user the only other thing I struggle with is being a salesman. This book makes it simple as to what you need to do to get that screenplay sold. Buy this and Save the Cat and you should be well on your way, provided you have my talent.

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