How to Write a Movie in 21 Days |  | Author: Viki King
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0062730665
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.066791
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ASIN: 0062730665
Publication Date: December 31, 1993
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Product Description
The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script. Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides the would-be screenwriter through the writing of a movie. It answers such questions as: - How to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet
- How to tell if your idea is really a movie
- How to move from what you want to say saying it
- How to stop getting ready and start
Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. It also addresses such issues as: - How to pay the rent while paying your dues
- What to say to your spouse when you can't come to bed
- How to keep going when you think you can't
Foraccomplished screenwriters honing their craft, as well as those who never before brought their ideas to paper, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is an indispensable guide. And Viki King's upbeat, friendly style is like having a first-rate writing partner every step of the way.
Amazon.com Review
No book can find your ideas for you, but this one provides a great service in helping you discover and develop a story, and to come up with the completed script. King helps you learn to think cinematically, in the language of the movies, and to keep asking the essential questions as they work: What's the story? Who is the story about? Do you care about the characters? Does anyone? King also tries to help you survive not just the structural pitfalls that can derail a script, but also the mental or emotional whirlpools that can prevent any artist from finishing a project.
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 a crash course in screen writing November 4, 2009
Kevin R. Given
This book is excellent in showing a beginner how to get the job done quick. It is very informative as far as what big studio execs and agents want to see in a script.
The Best! October 14, 2009
L Boy (Atlanta, GA)
Story first. My one and only script writing book. It's all here.
You'll be writing your own scripts by the end of the last chapter.
You'll be tempted to stop reading and start writing. She's that good. But you should be disciplined and finish, theres more to know.
I love the lessons all throughout the book. Had no idea I was being set up to write my first script.
She's good, this one.
Thanks Viki.
I highly recommend.
how to write a movie in 21 days September 19, 2009
laurie titman
Excellent. Even tells you what is required on what page. act one pages 1, 3, 10, and 30. Act two 45, 60, 75, 90, act three 93, 100, 110, 115, 118, 119, 120.
I wish I'd have read it years ago. I now know where I've been going wrong.
Hints - "If someone dies, lets see the empty bed", "Cut to the slap", "the square peg's journey", how the 'all is lost' moment of truth evolves into the "round peg in the round hole" climax.
Write a movie? Easy..... July 18, 2009
Travelling Granny (Sacramento, CA USA)
This fills in my "library" very well. I am trying to put together a movie script and the ideas by Viki King are helping me on the way. Each book has its own slant on how to write the great Oscar winner and this one includes some really good "posers" to help get through writers block. Now I just have to get up off my duff and complete my script. Wish the book could do the typing....
Makes the task doable December 17, 2008
Benjamin Devey
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How do you write a script in 21 days, while you're reading the book on how to do it? King gives exercises to find your inner story and get it down before your inner critic has a chance to sabotage the project. She shares tips on recognizing how your life issues play into your themes, the mechanics of script writing, how to deal with writers block, and life issues for being a screenwriter and living with one, or how to be pleasant while you're wresting your life story to paper. It isn't intended to be the comprehensive manual. Instead it takes the mortal fear out of getting the job done, so you can get on with being an artist. King presents the material in a light approach that never gets in the way. You can actually read the book while completing your script within several weeks. I did it, and never felt pressure or creative agony (I did cheat, adapting a book I wanted to get to screenplay). The first time is the hardest; after that it's only as agonizing as having your toenails removed via pliers. Have fun.
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