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|  | | A Fine Upstanding Citizen
Senator Edward Milano has a secret: 25 years ago he murdered a man. Now he is one of twelve suspects in an information leak, will they discover his secret?
Early in his political career Senator Edward Milano had killed a man. That wasn’t a clever euphemism for winning against his opponent by a landslide or easily beating him in a debate; though he had also done that. Milano crushed a man’s windpipe with his bare hands, his beautifully manicured thumbnail tearing through the flesh of the man’s neck and severing his carotid artery, a jet of warm blood spraying over Milano’s face and only suit jacket. When the man died in his blood slicked hands, he realized that he had probably made a mistake. Back then, he had some anger issues.
25 Years | |  | | Act Two Secrets
Stuck In The Middle Of Your Story? This Blue Book Will Help!
Do you have the Act Two Blues?
Having problems with the middle of your screenplay? Running out of steam halfway through? Getting caught in subplots and slow spots? You may be having Act Two problems! Act Two has a reputation for being the hardest to write. This Blue Book will take you through the desert of Act Two, showing you how to solve those Act Two Blues!
Subjects Include: What Is Act Two? Inside Moves, The 2 Ps: Purpose & Pacing, The 4Ds: Dilemma, Denial, Drama and Decision, Momentum, the Two Act Twos, Subplot Prisms, Deadlines, Drive, Levels Of Conflict, Escalation, | |  | | Breaking In Blue Book
How To Break Into Hollywood As A Screenwriter: from selling a screenplay to writing the next superhero movie.
How to Break In to the business, plus how to *Stay In*!
You will learn about the 8 types of Meetings, 14 ways to make Hollywood Connections, 12 ways to make Connections In Your Home Town, the 12 elements of a Studio Assignment, 7 ways to sneak through the side door, and so much more! Information you can use *now* to move your career forward!
How do you break in? How do you sell it? How do you have a *career* as a screenwriter?
This Blue Book covers almost everything you will need to know for your screenwriting career: from the perfect query letter and how to find | |  | | Dialogue Blue Book
The secrets of great dialogue! From subtext to exposition to banter!
What makes great dialogue? How can I make my characters each have a different and unique voice?
A step-by-step guide to improve your screenplay's dialogue. How to remove bad dialogue (and what *is* bad dialogue), First Hand Dialogue, Awful Exposition, Realism, 41 Professional Dialogue Techniques you can use *today*, Subtext, Subtitles, Humor, Sizzling Banter, *Anti-Dialogue*, Speeches, and more. Almost 200 pages of tools you can use to make your dialogue sizzle!
Special sections that use dialogue examples from movies as diverse as "Bringing Up Baby", "Psycho", "Double Indem | |  | | Followed Home
Crime Time Thriller #1 - A woman is carjacked and kidnapped by an armed stranger and must outsmart him before they get to her house.
Bowden knew the best place to find a victim is somewhere they feel safe. And the best place to find a rich victim is someplace where rich people feel safe. He’d learned the hard way about country clubs; those rich people are all armed with golf clubs and tennis rackets and shit and beat the hell out of you before calling the cops. End up punch ugly and busted up at your arraignment... and the jury applauds every damned yuppy who beat on you when they testify at trial. No more country clubs for Bowden. But a nice, upscale supermarket like Archstone with a parking lot filled with Beemers and Mer | |  | | Hiitchcock: Mastering Suspense
A look at the different ways that suspense is generated in 17 films by Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock, who directed 52 movies, was known as the “Master Of Suspense”; but what exactly is suspense and how can *we* master it? How does suspense work? How can *we* create “Hitchcockian” suspense scenes in our screenplays, novels, stories and films?
This epic book uses seventeen of Hitchcock’s films to show the difference between suspense and surprise, how to use “focus objects” to create suspense, the 20 iconic suspense scenes and situations, how plot twists work, using secrets for suspense, how to use Dread (the cousin of suspense) in horror stories, and dozens of other am | |  | | Hitchcock: Experiments In Terror
Hitchcock's Most Daring Story And Cinema Experiments Exposed!
We all know that Alfred Hitchcock was the Master Of Suspense, but did you know he was the most *experimental* filmmaker in history?
Contained Thrillers like “Buried”? Serial Protagonists like “Place Beyond The Pines”? Multiple Connecting Stories like “Pulp Fiction”? Same Story Multiple Times like “Run, Lola, Run”? HITCHCOCK DID IT FIRST!
This book focuses on 18 of Hitchcock’s 53 films with wild cinema and story experiments which paved the way for modern films. Almost one hundred different experiments that you may think are recent cinema or story inventions... but some date | |  | | Hook 'Em In 10 Blue Book
How to hook readers in the first ten pages! From late starts to the Golfing Goat Rule!
By page ten you have either hooked your reader and made them want to read more, or lost them... and they set your script aside. You don't get a second chance to make a good first impression! This Blue Book will teach you techniques that will make your first page exciting and engaging to readers, and methods to hook readers by page ten so that they *must* find out how your story ends.
Your First Page, 12 Techniques To Start Your Story, World Building and INCEPTION, Title Crawls & Voice Over Narration, Page One Kickers, Character Introduction & String Theory, Page Ten Kickers, KISS & A | |  | | Protagonist Blue Book
From deep characterization to contrast, how to create strong protagonists.
No More Passive Protagonists!
A step-by-step guide to creating "take charge" protagonists. Screenplays are about characters in conflict... characters in emotional turmoil... Strong three dimensional protagonists who can find solutions to their problems in 110 pages. But how do you create characters like this? How do you turn words into flesh and blood?
Character issues, Knowing Who Is The Boss, Tapping into YOUR fears, The Naked Character, Pulp Friction, Man With A Plan, Character Arcs, Avoiding Cliche People, Deep Characterization, Problem Protagonists, 12 Ways To Create L | |  | | Scenes Blue Book
The secrets of Scenes revealed, from how many you will need to transitions.
12 New Ways To Create New Scenes... Transitions... and much, much more!
Great screenplays are made of great scenes, memorable scenes. Who can forget Cary Grant being chased through the cornfield by that crop duster? Or Gene Kelly singing in the rain? Or Indiana Jones facing that huge swordsman in the marketplace... and shooting him? Director Howard Hawks (“The Big Sleep”, “Bringing Up Baby”, “Rio Bravo”) famously said, “A film needs three great scenes and no bad ones”. But how do you create those great scenes?
This Blue Book will help you tune up those tired scenes! We’ll l | |  | | Secrets Of Story: Well Told
It's not just the story, it's how you tell it... This Blue Book will guide you through the *best* way to tell your story.
A GREAT STORY, WELL TOLD
What are the secrets of good storytelling? Why do some stories flow and others get bogged down in subplots and dead ends? What makes a great story? If you have those dreaded "story problems" this 85,000 word book will help you solve them!
Learn the twelve elements of story: Ideas, Concepts, Conflict, Characters, Plot, Locations, Time, Tone, Genre, and Arena. How each element is critical to building your story, and how a mistake in the choice of any element effects the rest... and may create "story problems".
Using Paul Guay and Stephen Maz | |  | | Supporting Characters & Subplots
How to create amazing supporting characters and subplots.
How Do You Create The Best Supporting Characters For Your Screenplay?
You've created a take charge protagonist, but what about the rest of your cast? How do you make them unique and interesting?
Using the hit comedy"Bridesmaids" as our main example we dig into what makes an interesting supporting character. What do Supporting Characters do? The "Rear Window" theory. One Degree Of Separation. Opposites React and the film "The Shape Of Things". Your character's Story Purpose and "The 40 Year Old Virgin". Supporting Character Unity and why "The Watch" flopped.
Introd | |  | | The Bourne Movies
An inside look at all five "Bourne Identity" movies, how they work (or don't) and how paranoid thriller stories work. All the facts and stats for each movie plus behind the scenes info!
“They should have left him alone...”
The release of “Jason Bourne” starts a proposed new trilogy in the Bourne story... The film returns Matt Damon (and director Paul Greengrass) to the Bourne series after “Bourne Legacy” (which was *also* supposed to be the first in a trilogy). What draws us to these films about an amnesiac assassin trying to find the secrets of his past? Why do we now have *two* proposed trilogies?
This book looks at all five “Bourne” movies (including “Legacy” and it’s potential sequels) - What are the techniques used to keep the characters and scenes ex | |  | | The Family's Jewel (Mitch Robertson #2)
Screenwriter Mitch Robertson must find an $18.7 million necklace after a wild Hollywood Awards after-party... with a cast of movie star suspects.
Mitch Robertson was a Hollywood screenwriter with a problem....
The Presidential Suite of the Hollywood Hoover Hotel looked like a bloody battlefield: bodies everywhere, furniture broken, red liquid dripping from the walls, dead soldiers littering the elegant Berber rug as clouds of smoke overhead bounced between two air conditioning vents.
Mitch Robertson stepped over the body of an ex-child star turned sex tape star turned pop star and entered the room, spotted a gun on the floor and picked it up... careful not to spill his coffee with three pumps of mocha syrup from Penny’ | |  | | The Secrets Of Action Screenwriting
Write a Hollywood screenplay! Professional screenwriter William C. Martell takes you step-by-step through the process of writing an action, adventure, or thriller script!
Now fully revised! The Screenwriting Book recommended by an Oscar Winning Screenwriter and a Screenwriter with *Four* of the Top Twenty Box Office Movies Of All Time! The old version sells on Amazon for $399 (check it out!).
The old version was 240 pages packed with tips and techniques - the new version is fully expanded with new chapters and is around 500 pages! Real techniques from a working professional screenwriter that you won't find anywhere else! Let the other books tell you about the 3 act structure! This book covers: How to write a plot twist, the four kinds of suspense (and | |  | | The Shotgun Approach
SFPD Inspector Shelly Steele solves a rock star's murder on the VIP floor of a San Francisco Luxury Hotel. The ex-wife? The ex-partner? The ex-Record Label owner?
A shotgun blast to the face had turned the original Hector Belus painting on the hotel wall behind the victim’s body into something by Jackson Pollock. Until half an hour ago he had been a male Caucasian in his 50s, dressed only in a black and red silk kimono, laying on top of the bed in suite 1417 of San Francisco’s elegant St. Hopkins Hotel. Most of the bedclothes were on the floor, so the silk sheets and luxurious mattress underneath him had absorbed most of his blood. On either side of where his face used to be, buzz cut gray hair. Whoever he was before most of his head was blown off, now | |  | | The Terminator Movies
The story secrets behind all five "Terminator" films! How they work (or don't), complete analysis and all of the details and statistics for the films!
He’s back! The release of “Terminator: Genisys” (now on BluRay) is set to begin a new trilogy in the Terminator story... 31 years after the first film was released. What draws us to these films about a cybernetic organism from the future sent back in time? Why is there a new proposed trilogy every few years?
This book looks at all five Terminator movies from a story standpoint - what makes them work (or not)? What are the techniques used to keep the characters and scenes exciting and involving? How about those secret story details you may not have noticed? Containing a detailed analy | |  | | Through The Ringer (Mitch Robertson #1)
The first Mitch Robertson Mysetery novelette! Hollywood screenwriter solves mysteries behind the scenes!
Mitch Robertson was a Hollywood screenwriter with a problem...
"When his cell phone rang, Mitch Robertson was in Penny’s Coffee Shop in Toluca Lake trying to figure out what to do with the chopped up body parts. Gone were the days when you could just scatter the severed limbs and torso all over the city, now with DNA the body would be reassembled almost immediately. And after 9-11 you couldn’t just get the neighbor kid to do a “penmanship exercise” making address labels, get some other kid to lick the stamps, box up the parts and drop them in a bunch of random blue mail boxes all ove | |  | | Unhappy Medium (Mitch Robertson #3)
When the "Psychic To The Stars" private files, with dirt on everyone in Hollywood, are stolen, Mitch must find them before the blackmail begins! The Psychic? His wife? His mistress? One of his famous clients?
The stranger knew everything about Mitch! All of his deepest and darkest secrets! Why his marriage ended eight years ago, His ex-wife’s maiden name, The name of the small town where he was born, His childhood dog’s name, Two of his day jobs before he sold a screenplay, His zodiac sign, That time he rode on a Zodiac boat with some Navy S.E.A.L.s, The title of the film he took his name off, Where he spent his last vacation, How he drank his coffee black with three pumps of mocha syrup, and How he had found a stolen $18.7 million diamond necklace the night before.
Mitch had never met t | |  | | Visual Storytelling
From "Sunrise" (Oscar Winner 1927) to "The Artist" (Oscar Winner 2012), from Visual Characterization to Symbolism.
Show Don't Tell - But *How* Do You Do That?
Film is a visual medium, and screenwriting is *writing for the screen* - in this Blue Book we look at various techniques to tell your stories visually, using Oscar Winning Films and Oscar Nominated Films as our primary examples: from the first Best Picture Winner "Sunrise" (1927) to the Oscar Nominated "The Artist" (which takes place in 1927) with stops along the way Pixar's "Up" and Best Original Screenplay Winner "Breaking Away" (a small indie style drama - told visually) as well as "Witness".
Our other primary example is "Rise | |  | | Your Idea Machine
Where do you get your ideas? Here's a guide to finding great ideas *everywhere*!
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Your screenplay is going to begin with an idea. There are good ideas and bad ideas and commercial ideas and personal ideas. But where do you find ideas in the first place? This handbook explores different methods for finding or generating ideas, and combining those ideas into concepts that sell. Over 175 pages filled with idea generation techniques!
The Idea Bank, Fifteen Places To Find Ideas, Good Ideas And Bad Ideas, Ideas From Locations And Elements, Keeping Track Of Your Ideas, Idea Theft - What Can You Do? Weird Ways To Connect Ideas, Combi |
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