Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.

Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills you need to succeed and helps you critique your own work, meaning that at every step of the writing process you'll be producing the best scripts you can.

This book is filled with essential...

The ability to pitch well is essential for all writers, directors and producers. Strong pitching skills will not only help you sell your projects, but also help you develop them, focus what makes a story work, clarify character and plot, and work more successfully with collaborators. This book takes you from the essentials of what makes a good pitch to advanced skills for all kinds of pitching situations. It examines the problems that can arise with both mainstream and unconventional projects, from a range of different cultures, and explains how to solve them. It also analyzes the process of...