Expanding his focus now, Kenneth Atchity adds a substantial new chapter, "Breaking into Show Business," and new material about recapturing the "high" of creativity and maintaining confidence despite setbacks. He shows you how to transform anxiety into "productive elation," how to separate vision from revision, and how to develop your own writing agenda.This book, based on his writing seminars, research into dreams and creativity, and film development, is, as the New York Times states, "crammed with the sort of useful advice that it seems to take some people years to learn."
Kenneth Atchity Bücher
Dieser Autor ist ein Meistererzähler, der die Welten der Literatur und des Films verbindet. Als „Geschichtenhändler“ widmet er sich der Produktion und Entwicklung von Werken für verschiedene Medien, von Büchern bis hin zu Drehbüchern und Filmen. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich darauf, Autoren bei ihren Karrierestrategien und Taktiken zu unterstützen und ihre einzigartigen Stimmen in der komplexen Landschaft der Kommunikation und Kunst zu verstärken.
Writing Treatments That Sell
How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry
As Hollywood insiders know, the first step in selling your story idea for film or television isn't writing a script - it's preparing a treatment, the brief pitch of a story that sells the concept to a busy producer or agent. In this accessible, entertaining guide, writer-producers Kenneth Atchity and Chi-Li Wong tell readers everything they need to know to create an effective and salable treatment, one that includes such key elements as conflict, likable characters, plot twists, a climax, and visual drama